Apple, with judicial problems in Brazil.
A court in the city of Goiania in Brazil said Apple violated consumer protection laws and he must pay 5,000 Brazilian reais, amounting to a little over 1,100 dollars, to a client to whom he sells an iPhone without a charger.
Another, the company he runs Tim Cook You will also need to pay a 1% fee for each month that has elapsed since being called, and a fine of approximately $ 21 for each day of delay in following orders. Of course, you also need to provide the charger.
As published by the Tecmundo website, Judge Vanderlei Caires Pinheiro’s judgment indicates that the charger is a necessary thing and what Apple is doing, which no longer includes it in the box because it considers it unnecessary and negative for the environment, is abusive to consumers.
The technology company led by Tim Cook must pay money to a user from Brazil.
According to the Brazilian Consumer Code, devices such as cell phones must come with a charger. This does not mean that these elements cannot be sold separately, but a separate sale should not be mandatory for the device to function fully.
Apple would have argued that users don’t have to buy its charger because a USB-C to Lightning adapter is provided, so any charger can be used.
This is not the first time the Cupertino company has been involved in a controversy of this kind in Brazil. Later, it was fined by the Government for not including the charger in the iPhone; However, now it is an individual who is claiming the technology company.
Covid continues to threaten the manufacture of the iPhone
Chinese giant Foxconn has paralyzed the manufacture of iPhones because of the Covid-19. (AP)
The decision by local authorities to shut down some areas of the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Area, in Henan province (center), has put at risk the world’s largest iPhone mobile phone assembly plant located there, which belongs to Foxconn Technology.
The announcement of the detention, indicating a ban on movement in the affected areas, was immediately sanctioned and lasted for the last few weeks.
Factory staff have undergone PCR tests in recent days, according to the South China Morning Post.
Foxconn, Apple’s subsidiary in China. Photo: Bloomberg.
So far, neither Foxconn nor Apple has acknowledged the consequences of these measures, which could compromise the technology giant’s supply chain, which has already been affected by the forced shutdown of other suppliers located in the east of the country such as Pegatron Corp. ( in Jiangsu province) and Quanta Computer (Shanghai).
Foxconn has already had to close its plants in Shenzhen (south) for two weeks, although they have already restarted production.
China’s harsh suppression measures, which are forcing it to apply zero covid policy and imprisoned millions of people in the face of massive outbreaks caused by the variant omicronhad an effect on supply chains of the Asian country by causing uninterrupted drops of production and transportation stops.
He Xiaopeng, co-founder and president of Xpeng, one of China’s leading electric vehicle manufacturers, warned on Friday that this industry may be forced to suspend production in May if its suppliers in the eastern metropolis of Shanghai, which remain under strict confinement, are still unable to reactivate their factories due to restrictions.
Huawei CEO and CEO of the technology company’s smart automotive solutions business unit, Yu Chengdong, also shared pessimistic forecasts for industrial supply chains due to the confinement in Shanghai, home to 26 million people.
With information from La Vanguardia.
Source: Clarin
