Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones

Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by twtw on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:53AM (#18293487)

Then ship security updates independently of bells and whistles updates that make old phones dog slow?

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by dcbadacd on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:37PM (#18293975)

Then you get something like spectre and the fix is making things slower.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by sangnoir on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:06PM (#18294293)

There are thousands of use-after-free (or generally more pedestrian) bugs for each spectre-like bug. Let's not make perfect the enemy of good.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by Fnoord on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:30PM (#18295080)

Then you kindly ask Intel to reimburse the costs. Security > performance.

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