France hits Apple with $27 million fine over the battery issue you probably forgot about

Some two years after an apology from Apple and a flurry of lawsuits against the iPhone maker over allegedly slowing down older iPhone models in the hopes of spurring consumers to upgrade, a French watchdog agency has hit Apple with a record fine. It equates to around $27 million, and it was issued over the practice of slowing down older iPhones with new software updates (a power management flap that consumers can now manage themselves, if they want to bother with it). The €25 million fine is f...