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Does Apple deliberately slow its old models before a new release?
- unimpressive 11y agoI know you're probably thinking "Dailymail, ew" and "Betteridge's Law", but the evidence presented is fairly damning. It shows that people seem to collectively notice a slowdown in their apple phones when a new one comes out, and the effect is not there with the natural control group (people that own samsung phones). This implies that Apple does indeed sabotage their older models with software updates.
- lbradstreet 11y agoApple times the new iOS release to coincide with their next iPhone release (usually slightly prior). Therefore many users upgrade to the latest iOS at pretty much precisely the time of the new release. It doesn't mean that they deliberately slow down iPhones. New software is usually more bloated. Apple often does improve performance in the minor releases that follow, however. Leaving aside the fact that Android users barely get updates, they don't usually coincide with new releases. I'd like to see how slowness questions coincide with Android software updates for corresponding phones.
- wodenokoto 11y agoI really wish I could revert my iPhone 4s to iOS 6. On ios9 things are really slow. Especially Facebook, but it's hard to say whose fault that is.