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> Apple: it's intentionally slowing working products This is really disingenuous. They slowed the CPU on products with a worn out battery in order to prevent t
by FearlessNebula 4y ago
> Apple: it's intentionally slowing working products
This is really disingenuous. They slowed the CPU on products with a worn out battery in order to prevent the CPU from overdrawing from the battery, causing a reboot. Not exactly what I would call “intentionally slowing working products” but rather “reducing CPU power consumption to mitigate abrupt reboots to keep a reliable user experience”.
Granted, Apple was a bit shady by not documenting this and giving the user the option to toggle it, until they were “caught”.
- water-your-self 4y ago> They slowed the CPU on products with a worn out battery in order to prevent the CPU from overdrawing from the battery, causing a reboot Only after they have made it impossibly expensive to replace some lithium. This is an incredibly disingenuous defense of their actions. Apple is fully trying to tie hardware refreshes to the cadence of should be battery refreshes and the frog has been so boiled that android devices realized it was more profitable to follow suit. Apple is incredibly shady and there simply isnt a defense here.
- babypuncher 4y agoApple is the only one regularly providing 5-6 years of full OS support on their devices, which seems to go against this logic.
- FearlessNebula 4y agoThey were offering $30 battery changes IIRC? I’m not sure how my comment was disingenuous
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoWritten from the perspective of someone whose battery never suddenly died from 30% in cold temperatures on a bike ride, leaving no way to phone your family. Apple’s power management for degraded batteries is a good thing and I wish they’d done it sooner.