Re:Intel Fights for Its Future
by mcintyre1994 on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:50AM
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I have an iPhone 6S - I'd say OS updates do slow the phone down, but they also tend to be really buggy and generally rubbish for a while. I think it's probably more bad engineering and software quality than anything nefarious.
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My experience with Android is the opposite, it's gradually better and faster with every release.
Apple is intentionally slowing down phones with every OS upgrade to "preserve the battery" [1].
[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/technology/apple-slows-down-...
That's not at all what they said.
The said that as the battery degrades, they limit CPU spikiness that can abruptly kill the device even with a non-trivial amount of juice left.
That's not nearly the same as "slowing down the phone with every upgrade".
Often people have reported better performance after an OS upgrade, although obviously results may vary, and subjective impressions are always, well, subjective.