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Apple Is Allegedly Slowing Down Older iPhones with Degraded Batteries
- meritt 9y ago> to prevent unintended shutdowns and extend battery life The cynic in me thinks it's actually to encourage new hardware upgrades.
- soneil 9y agoThat's basically the gist of it. Everyone's decided what they want the answer to be. Now it's just a case of trying to shoehorn the facts to fit. If they didn't scale back on lower voltages, people would just claim they're trying to kill the battery quicker so you buy a new handset ..
- yoodenvranx 9y agoApple could just install batteries with 50% more capacity that can survive a full day of use even if the phone is two years old.
- hguhghuff 9y agoIf this were true it would be a user option, not hidden and unchangable.
- MagnumOpus 9y agoWell, the correct way to decide is to create a testable hypothesis that differs in outcomes between taking care of aging batteries and planned obsolescence, and then test it. Hypothesis: If they wanted to take care of batteries/battery life, the phone/tablet would resume running at full clock speed when plugged in and charging. Test outcome: This is not the case. Verdict: Hmmmm...
- covermydonkey 9y agoWell, all we need to do is check which cost center paid for the implementation. If it was Sales & Marketing, we have our answer ;)
- merricksb 9y agoExtensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15889519
- hguhghuff 9y agoThis should be taken up by consumer affairs. It's a deliberate strategy to slow down old devices with no way to turn it off. Sneaky and underhanded Apple.
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