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what? They ADMITTED to deliberately slowing down phones https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/29/apple-apologises-for-slowing-older-iphones-battery-p

• idlemind 8y ago
  They admitted to making a trade-off that would throttle performance with older batteries so that the phone wouldn't shut down when the CPU did not receive enough power. Turns out that trade-off was interpreted quite badly by some consumers who apparently would have preferred a phone that stayed as fast as the day they bought it, but instead crashed without warning with poor battery health.