It is literally reported in the media that Apple was doing this. These commenters take issue with ascribing the problem specifically to capitalism. They believe that, yes, capitalism causes enshittification. But they may also believe that it is not unique in this, or that even if it is unique in this, it is also unique in encouraging the innovation that brought about smartphones.
It’s reported that people believe Apple did things, never with any actual, you know, proof.
The biggest problems either performance with old phones is that folks don’t understand how batteries degrade over time and atrocity that to some sort of malice from companies like Apple.
I’m all for complaining about the dangers of unfettered capitalism, but stupid Apple conspiracy theories make yall look silly.
Batterygate: This issue gained significant attention in 2017 when Apple admitted to throttling the performance of older iPhones with degraded batteries, beginning with iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 11.2. This, Apple said, was intended to prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging batteries, not to drain the battery itself. The more cynical took it to be a deliberate action to encourage upgrading (and to enhance the perception of upgrading) by crippling their product.
“the more cynical” is a really positive spin on conspiracy theory nut jobs.
Apple only throttled CPU speeds on batteries that were below a certain threshold to avoid them crashing when they couldn’t provide the necessary power from the battery. Replace the battery, which Apple would do for effectively cost, and the CPU throttle goes away.
This was a measure to make phones keep working longer instead of forcing folks to buy a new one. Quite the opposite of the claims here.
Samsung throttled their phones from the start, for the same reason, but would increase CPU speeds to cheat at benchmark tests and lie about the capabilities of their phones. Where are the lame memes regarding them?
Here is a link to back my claims, because I don’t just spout nonsense.
I had one of those old phones and it was preferable to have slower performance overall as opposed to seemingly random shutdowns. In reality the shutdowns were directly related to when the cpu was drawing more current than the battery could provide often on websites that had tons of client side scripting.
So before the update I’d be browsing the web and my shit would just shut off and after it would run little slower but stay on.
Iirc they ended up improving the battery management software so it would maximize battery life and suggest when it was time to have it replaced.
It is literally reported in the media that Apple was doing this. These commenters take issue with ascribing the problem specifically to capitalism. They believe that, yes, capitalism causes enshittification. But they may also believe that it is not unique in this, or that even if it is unique in this, it is also unique in encouraging the innovation that brought about smartphones.
It’s silly, but it’s what they believe.
It’s reported that people believe Apple did things, never with any actual, you know, proof.
The biggest problems either performance with old phones is that folks don’t understand how batteries degrade over time and atrocity that to some sort of malice from companies like Apple.
I’m all for complaining about the dangers of unfettered capitalism, but stupid Apple conspiracy theories make yall look silly.
Pretty sure in this case Apple straight up admitted it, that’s pretty damning proof
Admitted to intentionally causing batteries to drain faster?
I’m sure you have a link to an official Apple statement that proves the claim.
Batterygate: This issue gained significant attention in 2017 when Apple admitted to throttling the performance of older iPhones with degraded batteries, beginning with iOS 10.2.1 and iOS 11.2. This, Apple said, was intended to prevent unexpected shutdowns caused by aging batteries, not to drain the battery itself. The more cynical took it to be a deliberate action to encourage upgrading (and to enhance the perception of upgrading) by crippling their product.
Their original letter is no longer available on Apple’s site so here’s a link to a Reddit post about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/bdv3zk/comment/el126j7/
“the more cynical” is a really positive spin on conspiracy theory nut jobs.
Apple only throttled CPU speeds on batteries that were below a certain threshold to avoid them crashing when they couldn’t provide the necessary power from the battery. Replace the battery, which Apple would do for effectively cost, and the CPU throttle goes away.
This was a measure to make phones keep working longer instead of forcing folks to buy a new one. Quite the opposite of the claims here.
Samsung throttled their phones from the start, for the same reason, but would increase CPU speeds to cheat at benchmark tests and lie about the capabilities of their phones. Where are the lame memes regarding them?
Here is a link to back my claims, because I don’t just spout nonsense.
https://www.theregister.com/2013/07/31/samsung_found_cheating_in_benchmark_tests/
I had one of those old phones and it was preferable to have slower performance overall as opposed to seemingly random shutdowns. In reality the shutdowns were directly related to when the cpu was drawing more current than the battery could provide often on websites that had tons of client side scripting.
So before the update I’d be browsing the web and my shit would just shut off and after it would run little slower but stay on.
Iirc they ended up improving the battery management software so it would maximize battery life and suggest when it was time to have it replaced.