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> that they deliberately slow older devices down to prematurely make them appear obsolete so that users will discard them sooner Not an Apple apologist but I t
by lancesells 4y ago
> that they deliberately slow older devices down to prematurely make them appear obsolete so that users will discard them sooner
Not an Apple apologist but I think you're leaving out a detail. Apples reasoning was due to older batteries[0]. You can see from the linked tweet the phones speed went back up when the battery was replaced. It may very well still be nefarious on their part.
[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-might-be-slowing-down-your-old-iphone-on-purpose https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-might-be-slowing-down-y...
- skeaker 4y agoI should have verified this before I commented, seems I kicked off quite a few threads with bad info. Thanks for the correction here, it looks like you're right. There are still arguments to be made against the longevity of Apple devices (if the batteries are the issue let us replace them, give us the option to pick battery or performance instead of forcing poor performance, etc.), but I'm glad to have been corrected on my initial argument.