As someone else mentioned, while there are legitimate reasons for this, Apple didn’t tell users about it or give people any option over it. If they had been open about doing it or gave some option in the battery menu to disable it there would be nothing to complain about. But secretly slowing down older devices was obviously going to be controversial when people figured it out.
There’s also the fact that apple makes replacing their batteries difficult. If their motivation was purely to keep people from the negatives of older batteries, a logical step would be to make battery replacement cheaper and easier. Instead slowing the devices feels like an extra push to sell new iphones or at least make money on battery replacements.
As someone else mentioned, while there are legitimate reasons for this, Apple didn’t tell users about it or give people any option over it. If they had been open about doing it or gave some option in the battery menu to disable it there would be nothing to complain about. But secretly slowing down older devices was obviously going to be controversial when people figured it out.
There’s also the fact that apple makes replacing their batteries difficult. If their motivation was purely to keep people from the negatives of older batteries, a logical step would be to make battery replacement cheaper and easier. Instead slowing the devices feels like an extra push to sell new iphones or at least make money on battery replacements.