{"id":391413,"date":"2018-01-14T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391413"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:45:55","slug":"congress-questions-apple-batterygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391413","title":{"rendered":"Congress has questions for Apple about batterygate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"sticky\">\n<p>\u00a0The drama surrounding\u00a0Apple&#8217;s old\u00a0iPhone\u00a0batteries isn&#8217;t over yet.Four U.S. House Republicans sent a letter to\u00a0Apple\u00a0CEO Tim Cook on Friday asking for answers on\u00a0batterygate.<\/p>\n<p>In December,\u00a0Apple admitted to throttling the speed of older iPhones\u00a0to increase\u00a0batteryperformance, a long-time conspiracy theory among\u00a0iPhone\u00a0users that turned out to be true. As a result,\u00a0Apple\u00a0issued an\u00a0apology to its customers, and announced reduced pricing for out-of-warranty\u00a0iPhone\u00a0battery\u00a0replacement, from $79 to $29.<\/p>\n<p>But the apology and explanation from the billion dollar company wasn&#8217;t enough for House Republicans, who want more answers on the subject,\u00a0according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The report also notes that U.S. Senator John Thune sent a similar letter to\u00a0Apple\u00a0on Tuesday. Thune is the chair on the the Senate Commerce Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Cook reportedly made $12.8 million in 2017, according to\u00a0a statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source: Mashable<\/div>\n<div id=\"scrollable\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The drama surrounding\u00a0Apple&#8217;s old\u00a0iPhone\u00a0batteries isn&#8217;t over yet.Four U.S. House Republicans sent a letter to\u00a0Apple\u00a0CEO Tim Cook on Friday asking for answers on\u00a0batterygate. In December,\u00a0Apple admitted to throttling the speed of older iPhones\u00a0to increase\u00a0batteryperformance, a long-time conspiracy theory among\u00a0iPhone\u00a0users that turned out to be true. As a result,\u00a0Apple\u00a0issued an\u00a0apology to its customers, and announced reduced pricing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":190803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[224,9797],"class_list":["post-391413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}