People think technology is magic. When they find out it's not magic, and hard decisions were made around tradeoffs that they had no input in, they doubt the rea

People think technology is magic. When they find out it's not magic, and hard decisions were made around tradeoffs that they had no input in, they doubt the reasoning behind those decisions. IMHO throttling the phones was the correct decision for the vast majority of their users. Warning about degraded battery performance would be preferable, but when do you do this? If this is an adaptive behavior, it may be throttling to 99% early on in the phone's life — so when do you alert? At 95% two months in? At 80% performance a year in? Apple can make another decision here, but people will still find ways to argue about the specifics.