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Apple did a horrible job communicating that to people. It would have turned out much better for them had they not played their cards so close to their vest.

• fossuser 8y ago
  Maybe, but probably not. They were pretty clear that the battery throttling on phones with old batteries was to prevent the phone from shutting down under high load. I'd argue that 95% (maybe higher?) of the public and the press don't understand this and still believe Apple was throttling the phone speed to force them to buy a new device. You even see this on HN a lot where people should know better. Bringing attention to it may just have caused the bad media response earlier.
  • setr 8y ago
    They were clear that battery throttling on phones was to prevent shut down. They weren't clear that they were battery throttling on phones to prevent shut down.
    • fossuser 8y ago
      They make the hardware, who else would be doing it?
      • panda88888 8y ago
        They weren't clear that they were battery throttling on phones.