Apple Sued Over Meltdown and Spectre Patches for iPhone, iPad

It becomes more and more difficult to keep count of the lawsuits filed against Apple these days, as the company is being sued not only for deliberately slowing down iPhones with degraded batteries, but also for the Meltdown and Spectre patches it shipped to its devices.

While in the first case Apple is being accused of planned obsolescence, in the latter the lawsuit suggests not only that Cupertino knew about the two security vulnerabilities long before they were disclosed publicly, but also that the firm reduces the performance of its devices with the patches.

The lawsuit filed by Anthony Bartling and Jacqueline Olson in a U.S. district court in San Jose calls for 100 Apple customers to join the class action, asking for damages in excess of $5 million.

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