The reasonable consumer expectation here is that CPU speed is unaffected by device age, since reducing the speed by battery age is entirely new behavior (both i

The reasonable consumer expectation here is that CPU speed is unaffected by device age, since reducing the speed by battery age is entirely new behavior (both in phones and other portable computing devices) AFAIK. This is different from degrading _battery_ performance over time, which consumers have had plenty of experience with.