Apple sued for slow iPhone planned-obsolescence in France

Apple’s headache over slowing old iPhones continues, with threats of a costly lawsuit in France amid accusations of planned obsolescence. Faced with older iPhones that, due to battery aging, could unexpectedly crash when running system-intensive apps, Apple introduced a “smoothing” technique in earlier versions of iOS. Far from pleasing users, however, that decision has backfired considerably. The problem Apple faced …