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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by garmaine on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:43PM (#18294038)
No, it was old phones in general. I had a brand new iPhone 7 that was gimped by the iOS 12 update and experienced 3-5s delays in user actions simply because it was older hardware.

The crashes which were being avoided would only have happened on bad batteries. But the throttling happened in all instances, bad battery or not.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by dwaite on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:17PM (#18298118)
You likely have a different issue then. The battery issue did not cause hangs, it just capped the CPU frequency to reduce power draw.

It obviously wasn't an "iOS 12 gimps the iPhone 7" issue - I mean, Apple sells new iPhone 7 phones with iOS 12 on them right now.

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