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France made planned obsolescence a crime in 2015: it bans using techniques (including software) to deliberately shorten a product’s life, with penalties up to 5% of annual sales and two years’ jail for executives.
In January 2018, Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into Apple after a consumer group alleged that iOS updates slowed older iPhones, potentially breaching this law.
After the probe, France’s consumer-fraud watchdog found no criminal planned obsolescence offense, but fined Apple €25 million for not telling customers that updates could slow their phones—a misleading commercial practice.
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GussDeBlod
right to repair is also mandatory here and they encourage it. Annoys tesla a lot, they HAVE TO sell you parts that breaks on their car for you to replace them.
OxfordWriter
And Apple paid the 25mill out of their change jar. I am an advocate for all corporate fines to be levied based on corp value and/or annual gross income. Fines should hurt enough to radically change company policy, not merely create a petty cash accounting inconvenience.
SmollCashew
Percentage-based, for sure.