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 Apple's apology on Thursday was an extraordinary move for the company. 
  
 The iPhone maker just doesn't say "I'm sorry" very often, so any apology at all is unusual. But even by other standards, the statement it issued regarding the slowing of iPhones with older batteries was an uncommon one — and it could have important implications. 
  
 Apple isn't apologizing for a hardware flaw, as it did with the Antennagate controversy that plagued the iPhone 4. And it's not apologizing for lackluster software, as it did in 2012 when the launch of Apple Maps was a fiasco. 
  
 No, Apple is apologizing for one of its decisions. What Apple is apologizing for isn't a bug; it's a feature. 
  
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 Now that it's been caught, Apple has basically been cornered into making the consumer-friendly moves it should have made in the first place. For the next 12 months, it will replace the batteries in customers' iPhones for $29 each instead of the previous charge of $79. And its iOS operating system will get new features that will allow users to monitor the health of their batteries. 
  
 But more important than those particulars, the apology could fundamentally change a key piece of how Apple does business. 
  
 iPhone 'glitches' could have been fixed by swapping the battery 
  
 Many iPhone owners have upgraded their device because their older phone had gotten slow and buggy. Now, we know that in at least some cases — at least in the past year — merely swapping the battery could have fixed the problem, rendering it unnecessary to buy a new phone. 
  
 Steve Jobs apologized for Antennagate in 2010. David Paul Morris/Getty Images 
  
 Did Apple purposely keep the battery-performance slowdown a secret to drive sales? Apple says no, that it was just trying to prevent phones from shutting down. You can read its apology and decide whether that's credible. Either way, what matters is that Apple knew what it was doing and users didn't. 
  
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 Now, having apologized, Apple is committed to giving users the information they need to decide whether to upgrade their phone or whether they can just get by with replacing their battery. I know at least one iPhone user who — after Apple's statement — now intends to swap batteries rather than buying a new device. 
  
 This apology will be felt for years to come 
  
 This incident — and Apple's response to it — stands apart from past scandals. Antennagate — which involved the iPhone 4's antenna losing signal strength when the phone was gripped a certain way — faded away after Apple offered customers a free plastic shell for the phone that was supposed to address the problem and after it fixed the design flaw on the next model. In response to the Maps controversy, Apple has slowly but steadily improved its navigation app so that it's no longer a huge embarrassment and is no longer the focus of customer ire. 
  
 But the implications of Apple's decision to add a battery-monitoring feature to iOS are likely to endure. This information will be available on iPhones and iPads, for both current models and, presumably, future ones. Every up-to-date iPhone will carry the result of this apology from Apple for years to come. Apple can't back down — it has already essentially acknowledged that it made a mistake. 
  
 And yet, this whole battery-slowdown snafu could have a silver lining for the company. Assuming that the data the battery-monitoring feature shares is helpful and that the battery-replacement program goes off without a hitch, Apple customers will be better informed and have better-functioning iPhones. 
  
 Scott Forstall, then a senior vice president at Apple, introduced Apple Maps in 2012. The app would go on to be a fiasco that Apple CEO Tim Cook would apologize for, with Forstall departing Apple soon after. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 
  
 Sure, Apple most likely lost some goodwill. But Apple's previous fiascos show the company has a way of bouncing back. Maybe this will serve as a positive lesson to Apple about the value of openness and transparency — things it has long lacked. 
  
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 Or, as Steve Jobs put it when he apologized for Antennagate: "So we do all this because we love our users. And when we fall short — which we do sometimes — we try harder. We pick ourselves up, we figure out what's wrong, and we try harder. And when we succeed, they reward us by staying our users, and that makes it all worth it." ||||| It didn’t take long between Apple confirming that it deliberately slowed older iPhones to the first class action lawsuit. More quickly followed, and the latest tally appears to be 15 separate cases … 
  
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 Patently Apple has been tracking them, and today’s update lists all the ones spotted to date. 
  
 Cases have been filed in central California, Chicago, the Bay Area, New York, northern California, Israel, New York (again), California (again), San Francisco (again), France, Korea, Chicago (again) and Texas. 
  
 The specific claims made in the cases vary, but with an obvious common theme that Apple worsened consumer experience of the phones, didn’t give them any opportunity to opt out, and failed to inform them about their degraded experience. 
  
 The prize for the most ridiculous claim is won by a plaintiff in California who is claiming $999B in compensation, an amount Apple couldn’t yet raise by selling the entire company … 
  
 As we noted yesterday, Apple has supplemented its apology with more details on the reasons it decided to take the action. 
  
 With a low battery state of charge, a higher chemical age, or colder temperatures, users are more likely to experience unexpected shutdowns. In extreme cases, shutdowns can occur more frequently, thereby rendering the device unreliable or unusable. iOS 10.2.1 (Released January 2017) includes updates for previous models of iPhone to prevent them from unexpectedly shutting down. This includes a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE to dynamically manage the instantaneous performance peaks, only when needed, to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down. This capability was also extended to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus with iOS 11.2, and we will continue improving our power management feature in the future. This feature’s only intent is to prevent unexpected shutdowns so that the iPhone can still be used. This power management works by looking at a combination of the device temperature, battery state of charge, and the battery’s impedance. Only if these variables require it, iOS will dynamically manage the maximum performance of some system components, such as the CPU and GPU in order to prevent unexpected shutdowns. As a result, the device workloads will self-balance, allowing a smoother distribution of system tasks, rather than larger, quick spikes of performance all at once. In some cases, a user may not notice any differences in daily device performance. The level of perceived change depends on how much power management is required for a particular device. 
  
 You can read the full explanation here. 
  
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Solution:
When Apple apologized Thursday for deliberately—and secretly—slowing down older iPhones to make sure their batteries continue to function, it was an "extraordinary move," Business Insider reports. And that's not just because it was a rare apology from the company. Matt Weinberger writes that the apology "could fundamentally change a key piece of how Apple does business" by setting the company down a new road of "openness and transparency." Apple's decision to make it easier for iPhone users to know what's going on with their older phones and batteries could extend to other aspects of the company in the future. Here's what else you need to know: Apology aside, there appear to be at least 15 separate lawsuits pending against Apple over its decision to slow old iPhones, 9to5Mac reports. In one of the lawsuits—which were filed in California, Chicago, New York, Israel, France, Korea, and Texas—a plaintiff is seeking a ridiculous $999 billion in compensation.