Look, I get you hate apple and desperately want to find fault with everything they do. I agree they are a bunch of greedy bastards that try to squeeze as much money out of their customers as they can, but this just isn’t one of the ways they do it. In fact it’s the exact opposite: it ensures old devices remain usable for longer.
The fuckers sold us devices that worked perfectly for years until they sent firmware updates to slow them down
This slow-down only triggers after the device already had a brown-out. That is: it has to at least crash once due to a worn out battery.
“The brakes on my car worked fine for years and now they suddenly don’t work anymore”. Batteries are a consumable. They wear out. Phones were crashing due to it. They pushed an update that ensured the devices remained usable instead of crashing under load.
Could they have communicated it better? Yes. Was it the right solution from a technical point of view? Also yes.
You could also do what they do in the Android world, let the phone run like crap all the time, then it won’t need to slow down because it was slow from day one.
Look, I get you hate apple and desperately want to find fault with everything they do. I agree they are a bunch of greedy bastards that try to squeeze as much money out of their customers as they can, but this just isn’t one of the ways they do it. In fact it’s the exact opposite: it ensures old devices remain usable for longer.
This slow-down only triggers after the device already had a brown-out. That is: it has to at least crash once due to a worn out battery.
“The brakes on my car worked fine for years and now they suddenly don’t work anymore”. Batteries are a consumable. They wear out. Phones were crashing due to it. They pushed an update that ensured the devices remained usable instead of crashing under load.
Could they have communicated it better? Yes. Was it the right solution from a technical point of view? Also yes.
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Until you invent a better battery tech those are the only options we have. Let me know when you filed your patent.
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You could also do what they do in the Android world, let the phone run like crap all the time, then it won’t need to slow down because it was slow from day one.
I guess we’re slaves of the market then.