“Look, you can either not have your car burst into flames, or you can accept that it will drive progressively slower over the next five years. Yes we know you bought the car five years ago but it will literally explode if you drive faster than 10MPH. We just care about your safety is all! Safe from the product we made!”
It doesn’t get progressively slower over time, it’s either in degraded mode or it isn’t.
If you want to use a car analogy, it’s comparable to limp mode. When your car detects an engine problem it goes into limp mode in which you don’t have full performance but you can at least get home. You’d rather have your car not do this and risk damaging the engine, or would you prefer it to simply stop working and leave you stranded?
Batteries wear out, it’s an unfortunate property of our current battery tech. You can either let your phone get unstable (risking data loss), have it refuse to work at all, or let its run in reduced performance mode so it at least stays usable. Those are your options. Pick one.
Are you genuinely working for Apple damage control? The fuckers sold us devices that worked perfectly for years until they sent firmware updates to slow them down to get people to buy the new models, that’s the whole story, thats the full story, and if you don’t see that you’re either daft or hired to claim otherwise.
You know they were convicted for this, right, and had to settle multi billion dollar settlements because they they did that, yeah?
Look, I get you hate apple and desperately want to find fault with everything they do. I agree they are a bunch of greedy bastards that try to squeeze as much money out of their customers as they can, but this just isn’t one of the ways they do it. In fact it’s the exact opposite: it ensures old devices remain usable for longer.
The fuckers sold us devices that worked perfectly for years until they sent firmware updates to slow them down
This slow-down only triggers after the device already had a brown-out. That is: it has to at least crash once due to a worn out battery.
“The brakes on my car worked fine for years and now they suddenly don’t work anymore”. Batteries are a consumable. They wear out. Phones were crashing due to it. They pushed an update that ensured the devices remained usable instead of crashing under load.
Could they have communicated it better? Yes. Was it the right solution from a technical point of view? Also yes.
You could also do what they do in the Android world, let the phone run like crap all the time, then it won’t need to slow down because it was slow from day one.
“Look, you can either not have your car burst into flames, or you can accept that it will drive progressively slower over the next five years. Yes we know you bought the car five years ago but it will literally explode if you drive faster than 10MPH. We just care about your safety is all! Safe from the product we made!”
It doesn’t get progressively slower over time, it’s either in degraded mode or it isn’t.
If you want to use a car analogy, it’s comparable to limp mode. When your car detects an engine problem it goes into limp mode in which you don’t have full performance but you can at least get home. You’d rather have your car not do this and risk damaging the engine, or would you prefer it to simply stop working and leave you stranded?
Batteries wear out, it’s an unfortunate property of our current battery tech. You can either let your phone get unstable (risking data loss), have it refuse to work at all, or let its run in reduced performance mode so it at least stays usable. Those are your options. Pick one.
Are you genuinely working for Apple damage control? The fuckers sold us devices that worked perfectly for years until they sent firmware updates to slow them down to get people to buy the new models, that’s the whole story, thats the full story, and if you don’t see that you’re either daft or hired to claim otherwise.
You know they were convicted for this, right, and had to settle multi billion dollar settlements because they they did that, yeah?
Look, I get you hate apple and desperately want to find fault with everything they do. I agree they are a bunch of greedy bastards that try to squeeze as much money out of their customers as they can, but this just isn’t one of the ways they do it. In fact it’s the exact opposite: it ensures old devices remain usable for longer.
This slow-down only triggers after the device already had a brown-out. That is: it has to at least crash once due to a worn out battery.
“The brakes on my car worked fine for years and now they suddenly don’t work anymore”. Batteries are a consumable. They wear out. Phones were crashing due to it. They pushed an update that ensured the devices remained usable instead of crashing under load.
Could they have communicated it better? Yes. Was it the right solution from a technical point of view? Also yes.
Wow they censored my reply. I guess this place isn’t better than reddit after all.
You are saying I have the choice between a shitty choice and a shitty choice that breaks.
Once more, you are defending a company who admitted they were wrong in a court of law.
Just let it go.
Until you invent a better battery tech those are the only options we have. Let me know when you filed your patent.
Are you absolutely sure those are our only two choices?
You could also do what they do in the Android world, let the phone run like crap all the time, then it won’t need to slow down because it was slow from day one.