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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by jhiska on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:13PM (#15981270)
You make a good point.

If you consider that you can't easily change the battery in an iPhone without voiding the warranty or paying a premium price to Apple Support then one can make a strong argument that it's sneaky planned obsolescence.

Then again, a battery that dies down after a few years and is so difficult to replace is also planned obsolescence.

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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by justonepost on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:23PM (#15981404)
It's just another nail in the coffin. OS upgrades requiring more CPU usage, the lack of repair-ability, dying batteries, and now this CPU tweak.

It's pretty obvious what apple is doing. We need a law to make them stop or at least one which requires them to declare in obvious language about the things that reduce the functioning of their devices over time.

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