Haha. You mean that bubble where things like my geekbench score don’t bother me? The bubble where if my phone slows down past a certain point that I find tolerable, I happily buy a new one? The bubble where I don’t need to jump on an online forum to find social proof for these major life problems? That bubble? Sounds good to me. Lol
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Haha. You mean that bubble where things like my geekbench score don’t bother me? The bubble where if my phone slows down past a certain point that I find tolerable, I happily buy a new one? The bubble where I don’t need to jump on an online forum to find social proof for these major life problems? That bubble? Sounds good to me. Lol
Do you understand that the point of a forum is to talk about things that affect more than just you personally? Like how many people (that I have already given you many examples) are seeing slowness in real world situations, not just some benchmark (which you continually ignore because it is inconvenient to your bias)? You think it's perfectly acceptable that people should be induced to spend hundreds of dollars on a new device when they could be told that they just need a new $50 battery to regain performance? You're OK with a company selling people a device with certain specs, only to have those specs be lowered over time without any notice or explanation to the user?
You're the one who seems to need the external validation of your own biases by tearing down anyone pointing to the evidence provided by Apple themselves on what they are doing, without communicating anything to users about it.
Hey well i am not your conscience. I'm just saying that everything has a consequence. Doing nothing can have bigger consequences than doing something.
Enjoy your phone.
I have been and will be enjoying it with no abandon or shame and will enjoy the rest of them as well for as long as I live.
Oh come on dude, if it takes 2-3 seconds!! to answer the phone when it is ringing then you have a serious problem with that phone. Blaming this on Apple throttling the CPU is just ridiculous. When I'm back from holiday I'll measure how CPU intensive it is to answer a phone call, but I can't imagine it is actually even noticeable considering the circuitry of a phone.
Lol - thanks for proving everyone’s point, throttling iPhones had a double benefit for Apple. They didn’t have to perform warranty work, and they prematurely get people to upgrade.
You ARE the gift that keeps on giving - to my argument, and to Apple’s pocketbook.
You are addressing the wrong issue. It does not matter how Apple is trying to mitigate the design flaw in iPhone power management. The important thing is that they screwed up the phone design in a first place. They should be recalling these phones, not updating the algorithms.
Only the people on this forum that buy phones for the sole purpose of complaining about them will actually think that.
The rest of the world won't even notice, or realize that it's not a big deal at all if they do notice.
You don’t like apples business practices, that’s fine. Everyone doesn’t place the same importance on this as you and some others. Doesn’t make us right and you wrong. Just isn’t as important to some of us. I’ve read things that everyone should be just as outraged. That Apple is amoral, and literally “evil” for this. Lmao. IMO, people who feel that way need to get some professional help. Or at least realize that they put waaaaay too much importance on a phone, and maybe should get out more.
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I'm surprised that no tech blogs have dug in and done a bit of journalism on whether Android phones with degraded batteries ever throttle or shutdown. They mostly use the same lithium-ion battery technology, so it's hard to believe that they all run as good as new for a full five years. A little research in this area would prove that this story isn't simply orchestrated to cash-in on the guaranteed clickbait of an Apple story.
That applies as well, since if it wasn't with it the market would therefore not bear it essentially.
Why? Cos u r used to that by Apples s*** software. But that doesn't mean it's acceptable
But it’s an industry standard. A 2-3 year old android phones slows down too.
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My mag flashlight's light is starting to get dim. The battery inside it isn't completely dead so my flashlight should still be shining at 100% brightness until the battery is completely dead. Mag light just wants me to upgrade to their newest flashlight!
My rechargeable mag flashlight without user changeable battery used to shine 100% for 8h. After the latest sw update it only does 60% for 10h. Mag light just wants me to upgrade to their newest flashlight!
During this 10 hour outage, I wish I had a 2-year-old battery equipped flashlight shining at 60% for 10 hours instead of a flashlight that flickered and shined at 100% for 6 hours because I refuse to change my old battery!
Does that work? Who uses their rechargeable flashlight that much to kill it's health that much?
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I hear you. It would be nice to have known that Apple was doing this. I would not have upgraded this year if I had known. Instead I would have just replaced the battery on my old phone.
My iPad Air launch unit has a heavily used battery that keeps on keepin’ on. I have no idea how it holds a charge properly, never “randomly” shuts down, and performs reasonably well given its age.
If Apple slowed it down a year or two ago for my “best interest”, I would be using a computer that’s much slower than what it is today. This is yet ANOTHER reason I want to see someone challenge big tech about being able to roll back software. It should be illegal to prevent software downgrades on previously available software. This is the true issue that needs to be tackled.
If Apple slowed it down a year or two ago for my “best interest”, I would be using a computer that’s much slower than what it is today. This is yet ANOTHER reason I want to see someone challenge big tech about being able to roll back software. It should be illegal to prevent software downgrades on previously available software. This is the true issue that needs to be tackled.
The amazing part is that Apple puts in any thought to older products in the first place, and then people get upset by that unnecessary effort. They could just sell you the phone and then drop all support. The vast majority of Android devices receive few software updates, if any. And of course Android can not manage battery the way Apple does because each hardware vendor has different battery tech. But let’s keep up they myth that Apple wants to sell you a new phone by slowing down the old one, rather than the truth which is that Apple wants to sell you a new phone by making a better model.
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Forget that. Samsung phones were banned from Airplanes for exploding. I would suggest that Apple has a bit more credibility on the battery front. Also, name one Android phone that gets software updates after 5 years. Android phones are abandoned once they leave the factory. Apple puts in the effort to mitigate shutdowns with older models.
Seems fair, but Apple didnt let us know that a degraded battery was the reason for throttling, they did not even say they were throttling until after they were pushed.
I would have replaced the battery and kept using my day before ios update fast phone. Instead I got a new one.
As I keep asking, why inform the customer of degraded batteries on the Mac but not on the phone?