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It wasn't battery life, it was stability. The day Apple brought out the feature toggle for you to choose whether you wanted to throttle your device or not, I tu
by suprfnk 8y ago
It wasn't battery life, it was stability. The day Apple brought out the feature toggle for you to choose whether you wanted to throttle your device or not, I turned the throttling off. The phone was as fast as when I got it again.
That same day the phone crashed, a first in a long time, because apparently the power draw was too high for the battery. Imagine if, instead of throttling, they had phones crashing left and right. I think throttling was the right choice, but they could have been more transparent about it.
- chooseaname 8y agoThey could have chosen to better match the battery with the power needs of the phone. But, they chose form over function instead.
- macintux 8y agoBatteries get old. I'm not sure what Apple can do about that.
- chooseaname 8y agoThat wasn't the issue...
- saagarjha 8y agoUh, yeah it was. Older batteries couldn't support the peak power draw, so Apple responded by throttling the CPU if necessary. Unless you have something to share?
- chooseaname 8y agoLook back through the issue. People started getting throttled within the first year when they still have 90+ percent capacity left. That's not an "older" battery.
- macintux 8y agoCitation? Apple's official statements seem to correspond to anecdata that the problems went away after a battery replacement.
- chooseaname 8y agoreddit.com
- macintux 8y agoI'm going to buy anecdata that backs up a reasonable explanation from Apple over anecdata alone.
- CaptSpify 8y agoThey could build longer lasting batteries. Load testing your product is manufacturing 101
- sf_rob 8y agoMy Pixel that crashes randomly whenever I'm below 15% battery makes me wish that Google would have made the same choice (I'm certainly making some assumptions).