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I think the argument is that one would notice that the battery drains very quickly, and starts shutting off at a certain percent. Then they could know the batte

• MBCook 9y ago
  That makes sense. So I question the question is would users be happier having their phone slow down or having the battery appear to drain extremely fast? I guess my answer to that would depend on how bad the average “slowdown“ is. I think you’re right if the issue is serious, but if most people only take a 10% hit when your phone is old then the slowdown may be a better option.
• goialoq 9y ago
  That's not how it works. The phone crashes when the CPU load spikes higher than the degraded battery can support.
  • MBCook 9y ago
    I think this Siri there is that if the battery is only capable of supporting full voltage when it’s charged to 80% or more, then you consider that top 20% the full range of the battery and when the battery gets to 80% actual charge you tell the user it’s at zero. I’ll admit that I’m not sure how possible that is. If this technique would let you pretend that the battery only had half its capacity left without slowing down the phone then that maybe one thing. If even a slight battery degradation meant you have to pretend the phone only had 1/20th of its original battery left then obviously that’s pointless.