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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by Yetanfou on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:29PM (#15982468)
Because it is not a "feature". It is a band-aid for a design defect in the affected iPhone models, advertising it as a feature would only draw attention to those design defects.
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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life by acchow on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:24PM (#15982907)
It's not a design defect. It is intentionally designed this way - as thin and light as possible with a battery that's only sufficiently powerful for the first month.

And they get planned obsolescence too!

It's intentional.

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