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Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages by tbrock on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:39PM (#15967095)
No. People are generally not educated enough about electronics to understand that batteries degrade over time. The most common way this manifests is “this phone sucks the battery dies in 10 minutes zomg I’ll never buy x phone again!”.

Your phone battery has been abused for years and you expect it to hold a charge?!

It’s a much much better decision to slow it down than let the phone die.

Re:iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages by jaclaz on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:37AM (#15967989)
>No. People are generally not educated enough about electronics to understand that batteries degrade over time. The most common way this manifests is “this phone sucks the battery dies in 10 minutes zomg I’ll never buy x phone again!”.

This would be a non educated (and possibly excessive) reaction, but - given the success of the iPhone - what happens in reality is that another (still non educated and still excessive) reaction happens:

“this phone sucks the battery dies in 10 minutes zomg I’ll go and buy the new x phone!”.