Finalfine · Consumer-protection law
Apple fined €10M over iPhone water-resistance claims
€10M
≈ $10.8M at the time
Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
Italy · 2020
Status: Final
What happened
Italy's AGCM fined Apple for misleading marketing about iPhone water resistance and for refusing warranty service on water-damaged phones.
How it affected users
Users were denied repairs for the kind of damage the marketing implied could not happen.
Status timeline
Nov 30, 2020
Penalty announced.
Sources
- AGCM (Italy)regulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Apple fined €10M over iPhone water-resistance claims," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-11-30. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-italy-water-2020/