4 ms·

They only started offering it at that price after great public outcry when it was exposed they were purposefully slowing down older devices..

• danaris 8y ago
  ...in order to allow them to continue to run. C'mon, at least finish the damn sentence. They were slowing down older devices to make sure that they wouldn't just literally shut down when the aging battery could no longer supply enough power for spikes of usage.
  • acct1771 8y ago
    ..by the new OS/kernel they forced you to install, without writing it to be friendly to the old phones they're forcing it onto.
    • greedo 8y ago
      Forced you to install?? No one forced you to install the newest version of iOS.
      • dwild 8y ago
        Do Apple keep security updates over the old versions? That could be an easy way to be forced to update. Theses 2 relatively recents vulnerabilities are pretty good reason to have to update. https://www.krackattacks.com/ https://www.krackattacks.com/ https://www.armis.com/blueborne/ https://www.armis.com/blueborne/