Yeah, I think the slowdown was the right engineering choice, but not telling the user was a UX failure. You could imagine this happening because some engineeri

Yeah, I think the slowdown was the right engineering choice, but not telling the user was a UX failure. You could imagine this happening because some engineering team was tasked with fixing crashes from reduced battery capacity, and some product people who would have been responsible with informing the user weren’t in the loop or dropped the ball. Alternatively, you could suspect those product people saw a good opportunity for planned obsolescence with plausible deniability and took it. Either way, the eventual outcome (an outcry from customers and bad PR, followed by a more transparent software solution from Apple plus a subsidized repair program) seems fair.