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Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone

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Re: Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone

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Galaxy Note 4? Stop the fanboy madness and demand a better product. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank on suckers like you.

Galaxy note 4 came out in 2014 - it is irrelevant to the conversation of buying a new phone. You can only get removable batteries in a 1 year old flagship or midrange devices now - feel free to buy them if you feel so strongly about it. Please don’t use accusations like “fanboy” and “suckers like you” it’s rude and in bad faith. I’ve had about a dozen phones over the last decade including Samsung phones, LG nexus pho…

You're a fanboy because you believe poor design and high prices are acceptable since it's nice and shiny on the outside.

Re: Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone

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A co-work of mine sent me this article after his iPhone 6S slowed down considerably after installing iOS 11. He thought that his battery was defunct and causing the issue. I suggested he turn off the animations that are designed to run on the latest phones and are more processor intensive. (One other thing that will help, however, is to cut back on the transition animations in iOS 11. Go to Settings > General > Acces…

iOS 11 had some stability issues on my 6s. It got a lot better when I installed 11.1.

Re: Apple Confirms It Degrades Your Old iPhone

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119 for a $5 battery is not reasonable.

With installation and warranty on the work carried out it's entirely reasonable.

So even Apple has now recognized that their price was unreasonable and bad for customers. https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

"Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com."

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