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My memory is that it was common knowledge for several years that upgrading the OS to a version more than 3-4 years past the hardware release would cause a drama
by alanbernstein 8y ago
My memory is that it was common knowledge for several years that upgrading the OS to a version more than 3-4 years past the hardware release would cause a dramatic performance hit. For as long as I had access to an iphone, that was a known issue, as in, many people with older iphones would agree, any apple forum would have topics about it. Maybe it got more press coverage in the year leading up to the admission. Maybe there were multiple factors and the one they admitted became prominent in that year.
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- Angostura 8y agoOh sure, newer versions of iOS used to slow things down, but there are two separate issues. 1. Do increasingly heavy OS releases slow older machines (yes. Though ios12 has reversed this trend.) 2. Does iOS deliberately throttle older machines. The latter is the particular issue. It relates to 2 or 3 iPhone models with only when they have dodgy batteries, so I don’t think the accusation of generally nerfing old phones really holds. I do agree, however that Apple absolutely should have made it clear what was happening. Very poor communication, but not, I think malicious
- alanbernstein 8y agoFair points