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Re:France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down... by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:23PM (#22269019)
That's probably not the throttling. That's new iOS being too heavy for your old hardware.

Which is the bigger problem here. iOS devices are completely impossible to downgrade, so if an update slows down your phone, you're stuck.

It's hugely wasteful. iOS isn't substantially more capable than it was five years ago—why is it so much heavier?

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Re:France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down... by nerdponx on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:32PM (#22269100)
Forget impossible to downgrade. Stop pushing updates on devices that can't run them.
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