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It bothers me that the term "Big-Data" is thrown around casually for basically using Google Trends canned. The hokey conspiracy theories are needless when ther

It bothers me that the term "Big-Data" is thrown around casually for basically using Google Trends canned. The hokey conspiracy theories are needless when there are multiple sites that specifically benchmark the iPhone when new releases of iOS come out - 10 seconds with Google [1]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/ios-7-1-on-the-iphone-4-as-good-as-its-going-to-get/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/ios-7-1-on-the-iphone-4... So the author ( & professor! no less) should have gone with his first instinct that Apple is the largest company in the world and would be foolish to deliberately wreck an older product...this is an embarrassment of an article needlessly tagged with "Big-Data" and expounding a bunch of non-sensical conspiracy theories.

FatalLogic 12y ago
It is very unfortunate that the author did not get benchmark data, because the benchmark you have linked to supports this alternative explanation, which is in the later part of the article: >This data has an even more benign explanation. Every major iPhone release coincides with a major new operating system release. Though Apple would not comment on the matter, one could speculate — and many have — that a new operating system, optimized for new phones, would slow down older phones. The benchmark data shows an older phone performing much slower with an updated OS. Whether this supports the conspiracy theory implied in the first part of the article depends on Apple's intent, as the article says.