> Saying Apple intentionally slowed down older devices is disingenuous. They admitted to exactly that. They were fined millions in euros for it, and paid over

> Saying Apple intentionally slowed down older devices is disingenuous. They admitted to exactly that. They were fined millions in euros for it, and paid over half a billion dollars in fines and settlements in the US alone. Apple clearly wasn't confident their justifications would hold in courts, just as they didn't convince regulators overseas. I'll agree that if they had been honest with users about what they were doing this wouldn't have been an issue at all, but they kept it a secret and even if it genuinely wasn't the original or entire purpose for slowing the devices the people working at apple were smart enough to have realized that slowing the devices would incentivize more users to upgrade and that not disclosing the truth would prevent users from solving the problem themselves by replacing the battery and removing that same incentive.