A British law firm says it and consumer champion Justin Gutmann are taking Apple to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal, claiming £768 million ($950 million), in a dispute over a power management tool on older iPhones that could affect 25 million Britons.
Gutmann has accused the company of deliberately slowing down the performance of iPhones—what is known in the industry as “throttling”—by hiding a power management tool to disguise the fact that iPhone batteries could not cope with iOS processing demands and would suddenly shut down.
