This mischaracterization of the battery issue is nonsense. Phones finally got fast enough that people were using them until the batteries could no longer hold a

This mischaracterization of the battery issue is nonsense. Phones finally got fast enough that people were using them until the batteries could no longer hold any meaningful charge, causing the OS to throttle the CPU so that users got more than 5 minutes of battery life. Anyone who brought their phone in to an Apple store was told all they needed was a new battery. That isn't "planned obsolescence". If you want real planned obsolescence, look at just about every Android phone that stops getting firmware updates after 18 months.