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I don't understand why the iPhone CPU thing was such a big deal. It's a perfectly sane power management feature. Apple had to choose between two options: A. De
by p1necone 7y ago
I don't understand why the iPhone CPU thing was such a big deal. It's a perfectly sane power management feature. Apple had to choose between two options:
A. Devices lose battery life per charge over time, eventually powering off randomly because not enough power can be supplied to run the hardware.
B. Devices throttle their CPU over time to keep battery life per charge relatively stable, and avoid powering off.
Apple chose B.
I also don't understand the people who are so upset that Apple didn't say anything - any hardware/software company will make thousands of little tradeoffs like this during R&D, they can't be expected to publicly announce every time they make a decision during development.
- manmal 7y agoIt was such a big deal because Apple has a monopoly on „acceptable“ replacement batteries (the system shows a warning when you insert a 3rd party battery), and they charge 3x their actual worth.
- nonninz 7y agoIf I buy an used iPhone I want to make sure all the parts inside are original. The warning is there for that reason. The phone still works with 3rd party batteries.
- p1necone 7y agoThat's absolutely a separate problem worth being mad about, but that doesn't change the cpu throttling thing being afaic a perfectly sane power management feature. I'm surprised to be defending Apple on this, normally most things they do seem pretty anti consumer and leave a bad taste in my mouth. But in this specific case I really don't think they deserve the scorn.
- saagarjha 7y agoThe major legitimate complaint was that Apple was extremely poor at communicating this to their users.