Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone
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#2So basically it does what’s reasonable to protect your hardware. Not really worthy of the ominous clickbait title here.
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#3I just wish they'd been more transparent - perhaps a message in the battery section of settings saying "your performance may be impacted because of your degraded battery. It's recommended you replace it" or something.
New batteries are $119AU which I think is a reasonable price to pay after two years or so.
Everyone knows components in cars need replacing, including batteries, so I think people can be reasoned with in to accepting the same is for consumer goods you want to keep beyond the average phone contract term.
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#4WTF, from 1400mhz to 600?! This is a one hundred percent push of new product onto people with a good preemptive coverup!
If a person uses their iPhone regularly, they will go through the battery cycles that Apple defined and he or she is a loyal customer, hence the usage. No one knows that you "suppose to" update the battery and it's not easy. So, people just buy new phones.
I am amazed that everyone is just cool with this. It is an extremely clever strategy and results in billions in extra sales for Apple.
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#5So basically it does what’s reasonable to protect your hardware. Not really worthy of the ominous clickbait title here.
If you buy a car with a V8 engine, and after a few months it decides to become an L4 engine, without telling you, is that ok? The headline is completely correct.
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#6So basically it does what’s reasonable to protect your hardware. Not really worthy of the ominous clickbait title here.
I really don't think that's the case here. This issue is probably related to the battery, but the fact that there was no notice indicates to me that there are ulterior motives at play here. Obviously their corporate-speak is going to highlight the one kernel of truth in the matter, and they'll never admit that this was done for the side-effect that it would have on sales of new devices.
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#7I just wish they'd been more transparent - perhaps a message in the battery section of settings saying "your performance may be impacted because of your degraded battery. It's recommended you replace it" or something. New batteries are $119AU which I think is a reasonable price to pay after two years or so. Everyone knows components in cars need replacing, including batteries, so I think people can be reasoned with i…
"I just wish they'd been more transparent "
I don't see it as a lack of transparency. That smacks of underhand and fraudulent behaviour. I won't buy another iPhone.
In a similar vein, you can no longer move photos from your computer to your iPhone unless you subscribe to the paid Cloud service. iTunes will no longer allow you to do that.
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#8So basically it does what’s reasonable to protect your hardware. Not really worthy of the ominous clickbait title here.
If you buy a car with a V8 engine, and after a few months it decides to become an L4 engine, without telling you, is that ok? The headline is completely correct.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted when Apple advertises performance as a selling point of their devices.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you buy a car with a V8 engine, and after a few months it decides to become an L4 engine, without telling you, is that ok? The headline is completely correct.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted when Apple advertises performance as a selling point of their devices.
I suspect because it's not a completely fair comparison from an account created apparently to post this criticism. Apple is apparently trying to mitigate the phone from shutting down under load the battery can no longer support. I'm not sure how to mangle the metaphor to make it more appropriate (my imagination is flagging), but one could argue Apple is trying to make sure the car still runs, even if it's limping along, rather than leaving you stranded on the side of the road at an inopportune time.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted when Apple advertises performance as a selling point of their devices.
I suspect because it's not a completely fair comparison from an account created apparently to post this criticism. Apple is apparently trying to mitigate the phone from shutting down under load the battery can no longer support. I'm not sure how to mangle the metaphor to make it more appropriate (my imagination is flagging), but one could argue Apple is trying to make sure the car still runs, even if it's limping alo…
So instead of making you turn your car to the service; they make you buy a new car by omitting the fact that your car’s performance is degraded due to another reason?