“Slowing down the phone to save battery life” is happening during 90%+ of your phone’s life, even from day one. There’s no conspiracy here. This was almost cer

“Slowing down the phone to save battery life” is happening during 90%+ of your phone’s life, even from day one. There’s no conspiracy here. This was almost certainly just a well-intentioned part of their power management design that affected the performance of older phones more than anyone in a position of leadership intended or realized. Bug report comes in: phone shuts down unpredictably when the battery is aged. Engineer see the issue, tweaks some values to make sure the peak power draw is kept in check when voltage drops, closes bug. How anyone who’s ever worked as an engineer in a large organization thinks this was some intentional decision to sell a handful more phones at the cost of upsetting customers is a mystery to me. Nobody is perfect. Apple is far better than most.