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Title: Apple settles Powerbeats 2 lawsuit for nearly $10M over defect
Post by: HCK on August 28, 2020, 04:05:18 pm
Apple settles Powerbeats 2 lawsuit for nearly $10M over defect

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Apple has settled a lawsuit over its Powerbeats 2.
It has agreed to pay a total of $9,750,000 dollars over a defect in the product.
Owners who bought the product in the U.S. might get a small payout.


Apple has settled a lawsuit over its Powerbeats 2 product for just shy of $10 million, over claims the product had a defect that would cause them to stop working after "mininal usage."

As MacRumors reports:


  Plaintiffs alleged that Apple misrepresented the battery life of the Powerbeats 2, and that the Powerbeats 2 were sweat and water resistant. Apple was also accused of not repairing or replacing defective Powerbeats 2 within the one-year warranty period, with the lawsuit initially filed in 2017.


Apple has now agreed to settle the claim by paying out a total of $9.75M, but denies the allegation that it misrepresented the headphones' battery life, and that they were sweat and water resistant. It was also accused of not ...

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