Apple may have thought the iPhone throttling debacle was a thing of the past after offering heavily discounted battery replacements and a software update allowing users total control over their “battery health”, but as far as one European antitrust watchdog is concerned, what the company did in response to #BatteryGatecomplaints was too little, too late.
Somewhat surprisingly, the Italian Competition Authority also decided to penalize Samsung for a lesser-known but similarly unfair practice of rolling out software updates reducing the functionality of some phones.
Specifically, the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer was reprimanded for “insistently proposing” Galaxy Note 4 users they install the Android Marshmallow firmware back in 2016, which ended up causing “serious malfunctions” by pushing the outdated hardware beyond its limits.
