[Swordmaker]

Do you take the Apple approach of throttling the phones and not telling anyone, or the Samsung approach of waiting for the batteries to explode, and not telling anyone?

Apple DID TELL in January 23, 2017 when iOS 10.1.2 was released with the battery power management algorithm for iPhone 6, 6s, and SE was included. There was discussion in there technical press about it then. I’ve cited and quoted several on FR in the last several days, but the current press has ignored that in favor of the hyped claim Apple hid it.

What’s different now is that John Poole, the creator of the Geek Bench test, started running his test on older iPhones with chemically depleted batteries, and found those ran the test slower than the test had run on the same phone model when it was new. His conclusion was that Apple was doing it deliberately to force users of older iPhone models to upgrade, rather than because the batteries were no longer capable of providing the power required run at full speed. He announced that conclusion publicly.

[Political Junkie Too]

Apple DID TELL in January 23, 2017 when iOS 10.1.2 was released with the battery power management algorithm for iPhone 6, 6s, and SE was included. There was discussion in there technical press about it then.

So tell me, honestly...

Do you read the EULA's that come with each and every piece of software you install on your computer?

Do you seriously expect a mass-market consumer of a commodity product to scan the tech blogs for the latest insider info on the performance of legacy products?

-PJ