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Wasnt apple fined for slowing down iphones? Looks like the 16gb model is now artificially made obsolete as well - you are supposed to buy the 64gb one.

by rvba 5y ago

D-Coder 5y ago
For slowing down iPhones when the battery was low and not telling the user about it.
- adfgaertyqer 5y ago
  Stop trying to spin it Apple's illegal behavior. The change was clearly unnecessary because once they rolled it back the phones kept on functioning just fine.
- adfgaertyqer 5y ago
  Stop trying to spin it Apple's illegal behavior. The change was clearly unnecessary because once they rolled it back the phones kept on functioning just fine. Modern hardware can and should last ten years. Accept no excuses.
- fsckboy 5y ago
  For slowing down older iPhones
  - addicted 5y ago
    I find the defense of Apple in this case absolutely fascinating. You know how I can tell that Apple made that change not with the user in mind? By the fact that until a 3rd party proved Apple was throttling older phones, Apple never publicly stated they were doing this. I’m fact, they vehemently denied it. I saw this on a personal level, where my mother who took 2 trips abroad about a year apart, with the same phone (and she had a lot of disk space in both trips and she hardly installs any apps) found the phone an absolute pleasure to take pictures during the first trip, kept missing shots while waiting for the camera app to load in the second one. And on taking the phone to the Genius Bar multiple times, she was gaslighted each time as the Genius showed her their diagnostic results which showed that no, her phone was in perfect health (minus a slight degradation in battery life). Of course, a few months later the entire world learnt that, in fact, her phone had slowed down, and Apple was lying. What’s interesting is that Apple diagnostics tools (which should probably have a speed test?) also reported everything as being just fine.
dagmx 5y ago
For slowing down iPhones that would otherwise shut off due to degraded battery health, without notifying users. It was a measure to increase product longevity (e.g a slow phone was seen as better than a phone that shut off randomly when voltage dropped)
- celsoazevedo 5y ago
  It was also a measure that forced some users to upgrade. My iPhone 5 got so slow and Apple was so unhelpful that I ended up replacing it. That was my first and last iPhone.
- mathnmusic 5y ago
  The battery that they made not replaceable. Interesting how it all fits together.
  - jolux 5y ago
    It is replaceable. It's just not replaceable without a screwdriver.
  - dagmx 5y ago
    It is replaceable, and pretty cheap to get replaced at Apple too. I think it was like $29 or something to replace? But even without Apple, that particular battery was pretty easy to replace
    - celsoazevedo 5y ago
      The $29 battery replacement program was only introduced after Apple was sued: https://www.macworld.com/article/230860/iphone-29-battery-replacement-faq.html https://www.macworld.com/article/230860/iphone-29-battery-re... Also: users were not warned about this "feature", many (most?) didn't know why their phones slowed down, and there was no way to disable the behaviour.
      - dagmx 5y ago

Wasnt apple fined for slowing down iphones? Looks like the 16gb model is now artificially made obsolete as well - you are supposed to buy the 64gb one.

by rvba 5y ago

Wasnt apple fined for slowing down iphones? Looks like the 16gb model is now artificially made obsolete as well - you are supposed to buy the 64gb one.

D-Coder 5y ago

For slowing down iPhones when the battery was low and not telling the user about it.

adfgaertyqer 5y ago
Stop trying to spin it Apple's illegal behavior. The change was clearly unnecessary because once they rolled it back the phones kept on functioning just fine.
adfgaertyqer 5y ago
Stop trying to spin it Apple's illegal behavior. The change was clearly unnecessary because once they rolled it back the phones kept on functioning just fine. Modern hardware can and should last ten years. Accept no excuses.
fsckboy 5y ago
For slowing down older iPhones
- addicted 5y ago
  I find the defense of Apple in this case absolutely fascinating. You know how I can tell that Apple made that change not with the user in mind? By the fact that until a 3rd party proved Apple was throttling older phones, Apple never publicly stated they were doing this. I’m fact, they vehemently denied it. I saw this on a personal level, where my mother who took 2 trips abroad about a year apart, with the same phone (and she had a lot of disk space in both trips and she hardly installs any apps) found the phone an absolute pleasure to take pictures during the first trip, kept missing shots while waiting for the camera app to load in the second one. And on taking the phone to the Genius Bar multiple times, she was gaslighted each time as the Genius showed her their diagnostic results which showed that no, her phone was in perfect health (minus a slight degradation in battery life). Of course, a few months later the entire world learnt that, in fact, her phone had slowed down, and Apple was lying. What’s interesting is that Apple diagnostics tools (which should probably have a speed test?) also reported everything as being just fine.

dagmx 5y ago

For slowing down iPhones that would otherwise shut off due to degraded battery health, without notifying users. It was a measure to increase product longevity (e.g a slow phone was seen as better than a phone that shut off randomly when voltage dropped)

celsoazevedo 5y ago
It was also a measure that forced some users to upgrade. My iPhone 5 got so slow and Apple was so unhelpful that I ended up replacing it. That was my first and last iPhone.
mathnmusic 5y ago
The battery that they made not replaceable. Interesting how it all fits together.
- jolux 5y ago
  It is replaceable. It's just not replaceable without a screwdriver.
- dagmx 5y ago
  It is replaceable, and pretty cheap to get replaced at Apple too. I think it was like $29 or something to replace? But even without Apple, that particular battery was pretty easy to replace
  - celsoazevedo 5y ago
    The $29 battery replacement program was only introduced after Apple was sued: https://www.macworld.com/article/230860/iphone-29-battery-replacement-faq.html https://www.macworld.com/article/230860/iphone-29-battery-re... Also: users were not warned about this "feature", many (most?) didn't know why their phones slowed down, and there was no way to disable the behaviour.
    - dagmx 5y ago