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Could that lie stop being perpetuated anytime soon? It was poorly communicated, but done for valid reasons.

• pydry 6y ago
  As part of the agreement, Apple must display a notice on its French-language website for a month: "Apple "committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission" and had agreed to pay the fine." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724 As you say, "just a misunderstanding". If it was genuinely done for the benefit of users they wouldn't have needed to hide what they were doing.
  • satyrnein 6y ago
    The word "hide" implies they intentionally concealed it, beyond just an "omission". To me, this is like games running at lower resolutions on older iPhones. Would that, too, require a disclosure?
    • pydry 5y ago
      I think a lot of people have never heard of the lightbulb conspiracy.
• biaachmonkie 6y ago
  Lie? No Apple was fully aware of the power usage profiles of their devices and the power delivery profiles of their batteries and how those degrade over time. Apple chose, for a variety of reasons (cost savings, weight, size) to use a capacitor and battery combination that as the battery degraded with use over time would not be able to meet the instantaneous power delivery requirements of the phones and result in unreliable behavior. Instead of admitting their mistake and offering to replace peoples batteries or refund them or some other reasonable solution. They instead decided to sneak in a performance throttling software change to try and mitigate their design mistakes. I don't consider that "valid reasons".