Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by dwaite on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:05PM
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How do you mean? The throttling* is still entirely there, you just now have an option to say specifically in the detected battery fault cases "please just have my phone turn off or crash rather than having it continue to function (but slower)".
AFAICT, this switch won't affect throttling in other cases, such as near/sub-freezing temperatures.
* this is a pretty complex issue; "throttling" isn't even a great term once you actually start to understand how the power management works
Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by garmaine on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:41PM
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Because allegedly those updates ALSO fixed the underlying software performance issues so the hardware wasn't taxed so hard.
Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by wycy on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:54PM
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That argument could possibly be made for iOS 12, but not for iOS 11.3.
Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by jamesgeck0 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:18PM
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You had to manually disable it. There was a little bit of wiggle room so maybe your iPhone faired better. But from personal experience on 11.3, if the battery capacity was below a certain amount the phone would just suddenly shut down on a fairly regular basis.
This was what Apple apologists said when this issue first came to light, but hasn't Apple already shot its own excuse in the foot? iOS 11.3/12.0 came out, removing the throttles, and I haven't seen anything about a rash of phones all constantly shutting off now.