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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by gehsty on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:27AM (#18813660)
Apple did not slowly degrade the user experiebnce over time, they throttled the cpu in order to prevent the phone crashing due to a old battery, do you think that a phone that crashes sporadically is a better user experience?

As you state it is an issue of consent to this throttling, if it was communicated effectively this wouldn’t have been a ‘Gate’.

A good way described in a podcast (think it was Rene Ritchie on the talk show) would be to let the phone crash then pop up a message with an explanation of what’s happened, that the phone is now dialled down to prevent future crashes, you can turn it off in settings etc..

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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by L0stLink on Thursday January 03, 2019 @12:11PM (#18816774)
It is simple really, if the battery's health has declined enough to warrant a down clock, just let me know so I can:

a) replace the battery.

b) opt-in to degraded performance.

c) upgrade my device.

Rather than (in effect) tricking me into an upgrade before it was really needed.

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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by davrosthedalek on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:05AM (#18813797)
a) It is perfectly possible to include a battery, that, even degraded over some time, can provide enough peak power. b) They could have sold their approach as a feature. Or they could have included a warning: Slowed down, replace battery. Similar to what they do now. But no, they kept it secret. Ask yourself why.

Also, if you have that functionality, why crash and then display a message. Write: Crash prevented, but clocked down. Look what a Raspberry PI does: It flashes an icon if the power supply is not keeping up.

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