IPhones start slowing down after a year

Re:IPhones start slowing down after a year by scrooched_moose on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:39AM (#15980262)

Then bury it in the settings. Let the phone automatically fall into "dead battery" mode but give me an option 7 menus deep to undo it.

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Re:IPhones start slowing down after a year by mantas on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:53AM (#15980432)

Then article "Trick Apple doesn't want you to know" comes up and every mom and pop goes 7 levels deep into settings.

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Re:IPhones start slowing down after a year by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:42PM (#15980911)

So what? That's how people learn.

This patronizing attitude of hiding all complexity from users is getting beyond ridiculous these days.

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Re:IPhones start slowing down after a year by mantas on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:56PM (#15990398)

Yet users prefer systems that hide all complexity from them instead of installing Gentoo...

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Re:IPhones start slowing down after a year by TeMPOraL on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:00PM (#15990442)

There's a limit to how much complexity you can hide before you turn a potentially useful tool into a dumb consumer toy.

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