> They definitely knew what they were doing and chose to do the thing that most benefited their bottom line. Imho there's a reasonable case that they did the t

> They definitely knew what they were doing and chose to do the thing that most benefited their bottom line. Imho there's a reasonable case that they did the thing which best protected users older devices and daily usable time, and I think most users would prefer their phone stays working for a day on a single charge, so they can make and receive calls and messages towards the end of the day. It's possible Apple wasn't thinking of the users, but it's not a clear cut case. It's also possible that if Apple hadn't slowed the older phones down as batteries wore out, they would have seen more sales as users needed to replace their phones more urgently as battery life dropped. So it's not obvious that the action they took favoured sales anyway.