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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by zepto on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:28PM (#18295057)
That sounds good in principle, except that 3rd party apps would also be frozen and start to fail.
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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by sangnoir on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:36PM (#18295131)
> 3rd party apps would also be frozen and start to fail.

Only if they use online services that are taken down; not all apps are like this. Even if they are, it is still a better scenario than throwing the entire phone away because it's unusably slow or unsafe to use due to lack of security fixes.

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Re:Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones by TomMarius on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:41PM (#18297719)
A customer won't see it that way. Their apps will nag them to update and they won't be able to.
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