Based on Agence France-Presse, France has opened an investigation into deliberate obsolescence of Apple merchandise. From the report: The probe into purported deceptive industrial practices and deliberate obsolescence has been beneath manner since December, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated. It follows a grievance filed by the Halt Deliberate Obsolescence (HOP) affiliation.
HOP stated it hoped the investigation would exhibit the iPhone maker was “associating the serial numbers of spare elements to these of a smartphone, together with through microchips, giving the producer the opportunity of proscribing repairs by non-approved repairers or to remotely degrade a smartphone repaired with generic elements.” The affiliation known as on Apple “to ensure the correct to restore gadgets beneath the logic of actual round economic system.”
