[Political Junkie Too]

Interesting dilemma...

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?

-PJ

[roadcat]

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?

Samsung phones are crap. Last week, my sister was complaining that her battery keeps dying on her Samsung phone, always causing her grief. She got stuck in the countryside because her phone died and the address she was going to was in the phone. She finally found a gas station in the remote area, and the attendant put a charge on her phone enough to get the address. She complained later, and again another day to me about her phone. I told her to buy an Apple iPhone and to trash the Samsung.

Finally, I met up with her and gave her two portable battery packs, a car charger and a wall AC adapter, and told her not to bother me again about her Samsung phone. Sheesh, Samsung owners are idiots.

[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.

[Zathras]

You are on the right track.
Its tricky to keep modern batteries charged correctly without having them go “Boom”

[bluejean]

“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?”

Damn, treating your customer base like crap is SUCH a pain! Obviously there were NO other options available. Poor b@stards. /Sarc