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The CPU frequency situation was a one-time thing when they got caught throttling. Up-to-date iPhones getting slower around the time of new model release is an o
by hericium 4y ago
The CPU frequency situation was a one-time thing when they got caught throttling. Up-to-date iPhones getting slower around the time of new model release is an ongoing problem.
I have a 3 years old iPhone with no 3rd party apps (recently removed Uber.app), unused Safari and few email accounts. Apart from emails, I'm using it as a phone. I'm not a heavy smartphone user and never was.
As far as I'm aware the CPU is not throttled but the phone is so slow (even after factory reset and update to current iOS) that waking screen up takes 4-6 seconds. Buying new device with Apple logo is the last thing on my mind when my "perfectly good" 3yo iPhone is getting artificially aged.
But most users are paying those fuckers just because their "old" iPhone got slow.
- apetrovic 4y agoI have iPhone XS. Full of 3rd party apps. My wife and my daughter have iPhone XR. Also full of 3rd party apps. Other daughter have iPhone 11. 3rd party apps? Yes. Nobody in our home noticed any slowdowns, especially 4-6 seconds to unlock the phone. That's just ridiculous. I just checked with wife's other phone (iPhone SE), it works as always. You can blame Apple for many things, but iPhone longevity isn't one of them.
- dehrmann 4y agoI wonder if we're moving past slowdowns the same way PC upgrades around 2010 didn't matter much. Once you have enough RAM and enough cores, it takes specialized applications to notice much of a difference.
- KerrAvon 4y agoNo, it takes a large, dedicated OS performance and quality team to keep things running fast on older supported hardware. Apple has one (as does Microsoft).
- dehrmann 4y agoI'm sure they do. It just seems like a quad-core 2 Ghz machine with an SSD and 8GB of RAM has been pretty usable for a decade. I don't remember Pentium 4's being as usable in 2002 as in 2012.