Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by imgabe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:00PM
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2 seems the reasonable choice. If old hardware can't support a new feature, don't add it. I don't think customers will have trouble understanding "Your phone is old and it can't handle this new thing". That isn't difficult to understand. For older phones just provide necessary security updates for the older version of the OS.
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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by greglindahl on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:05PM
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Apple already doesn't turn on new features on old phones that "can't support" them.
The new features being talked about are ones that make an old phone slower. I owned an iPhone 5s and updated to the latest iOS version for 4 years and never noticed any slowness. So, basically, (2) means I would miss out on new features because other people complain about slowness that I don't notice.
Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
by ummonk on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @04:07PM
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Yeah, some people seem to have much higher expectations of speed than I do. Having lived through dial up and actual hard disks (rather than SSDs), I really don't notice any slowness in my iPhone SE. I just notice all the awesome new features.