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Nope, it was the main iPhone line. 2017: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2017/12/20/apple-iphone-kill-switch-ios-degrade-cripple-performance-battery/ h

• theshrike79 4y ago
  Different case. That was Apple assuming that people would rather have a slower phone that worked instead of a fast phone that just randomly shut down. Took them like two weeks to release a patch where you can pick which option you like. As someone who had an iPhone that claimed to have 30-40% battery and then just shut down completely when trying to make a call, I really would've preferred the slowdown option. It was fixed by a 50€ new battery.
• kaba0 4y ago
  This is literally a company doing something nice for a change (fixing old hardware’s bug that its aging battery can’t output the necessary output, so decrease the necessary voltage because a phone literally restarting in the middle of the day is just useless), though objectively with terrible PR getting hated for it. There was literally no malice here, a very serious bug that obsoleted an otherwise out-of-support device of their got fixed. Sure, the best option is the one that was later implemented (people can choose which option they prefer) thanks to governments(!), but let’s not sell this story as something else.
  • brokenmachine 4y ago
    That's the absurdly charitable interpretation, anyway.