Last Update: May 16, 2023, 01:50 AM IST
Apple France was not immediately available for comment.
An investigation into Apple’s alleged deceptive commercial practices and planned obsolescence has been ongoing since December.
Prosecutors and a union said on Monday that France is investigating US tech giant Apple for allegedly planning to make smartphones obsolete by banning them from being repaired, prosecutors and a union said on Monday.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said an investigation into alleged deceptive commercial practices and planned obsolescence has been ongoing since December.
This follows a complaint filed by the Halt Planned Obsolescence (HOP) Association.
The HOP said it expects the investigation to reveal that the iPhone maker is “adding the serial numbers of spare parts to smartphones via microchips, allowing the manufacturer to prohibit repairs by non-approved repairers or to remove smartphone repairs.” Getting a chance.” with common parts”.
The association called on Apple to “guarantee the right to repair equipment under the logic of a genuine circular economy”.
Apple France was not immediately available for comment.
Apple in 2020 agreed to pay 25 million euros (then $27.4 million) for failing to tell iPhone users that software updates could slow down older devices.
The scandal began in December 2017, when the US tech giant admitted that its most recent iOS software was slowing down the performance of older telephones, whose battery life was degrading.
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