Apple's life has been a little difficult these days, and according to the verdict, Apple will compensate each "BatteryGate" user for an amount of 660 yuan or more. The so-called "batterygate" was a lawsuit filed by American users in 2017, accusing Apple of "deliberately reducing the performance of older iPhones".
And Apple also admits that it will use the "power management system" to limit the performance of some iPhone models when necessary to avoid the aging of the mobile phone battery.
After a series of competitions, Apple finally paid a total of $500 million in compensation to "Batterygate" users, with each compensation exceeding $92, equivalent to 660 yuan.
These "battery door" users are all over the world, including Laos, the United States, South Korea and other regions. As the world's largest iPhone sales area and the world's largest iPhone production base, the mainland market and consumers have given Apple great support.
It stands to reason that they are all iPhone users, so mainland users are also affected by the "battery door", and they should become users of the battery door and enjoy a compensation of 660 yuan. But a strange phenomenon still appeared, the 660 yuan "battery door" compensation did not have mainland users.
Seeing this, many users are indignant that Apple is treating it differently. Why is this strange phenomenon happening? I think there are two reasons for this.
First, mainland users are not united enough
The reason why Apple will compensate 660 yuan to the "battery gate" users is because consumers in the United States and South Korea have filed lawsuits with local authorities. These users are united in fighting for their interests through formal channels, so it is only natural that they will be compensated by Apple.
To put it bluntly, pie doesn't fall from the sky, and it is somewhat whimsical to want compensation if you don't do anything.
Second, Apple treats domestic consumers differently
Apple has a long history of treating users differently, such as in terms of mobile phone replacement agreements, Apple treats domestic users differently. In the early years, domestic users could enjoy no reason to replace the new phone after buying an Apple mobile phone, but soon this policy was gone.
On the other hand, users in other parts of the world can still enjoy a new phone without any reason, which is an unacceptable thing for mainland users.
Of course, this can't be entirely blamed on Apple, some unscrupulous merchants take advantage of Apple's policy to make a lot of money in exchange for good ones, which does infringe on Apple's interests, so Apple is not untargeted.
It's just that these merchants are only a minority, and compared with hundreds of millions of Apple users, the number of these merchants is negligible, so Apple's one-size-fits-all approach still treats domestic users differently, which is worthy of condemnation.
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Objectively speaking, the battery capacity of the iPhone is not large, and the battery capacity of the iPhone 14 series and iPhone 15 series is still not more than 3500 mAh. With such a small battery capacity, it is indeed unreasonable for Apple to limit the performance ceiling.
Now Apple has compensated 660 yuan for "battery gate" users, but mainland users are not included in the compensation, which is unfair to mainland users. In any case, mainland users have bought the world's largest number of iPhones, and Apple should also compensate mainland users fairly and reasonably, even if there is no 660 yuan, 100, 200 yuan can also warm people's hearts, what do you think?