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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by enraged_camel on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:40PM (#16025657)
>>Tens of millions of old iPhone users were left in the dark why all of a sudden the phone was slowing down to the point where it was becoming unusable.

Enough with the hyperbole already. Yes, a few (rather outspoken) users had this issue. For everyone else, slowdowns were noticeable, but they barely made the phones "unusable".

That's why this is a manufactured scandal. Yes, Apple could have (and should have) been more transparent. But their decision to throttle the CPU was based on sound engineering principles, rather than a nefarious attempt to get people to upgrade.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by MBCook on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:50PM (#16026555)
I uploaded you because I think the down votes are over done, but how much your phone slow down does seem to depend on how the phone was used. Some I’m guessing it was barely noticeable but some it was a real problem for. I’ve seen them.
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