France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones

Re:France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down... by kazinator on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:31PM (#22269077)

> Would you prefer the car simply turn off entirely while driving at highway speeds?

If the vehicle's age is only the equivalent of a phone being two or three years old, I would prefer a real fix, free of charge, in addition to any safety mitigation. I wouldn't want the mitigation to be regarded as the fix.

People have decade-old phones that aren't throttled and still have usable battery life at the same time.

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Re:France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down... by ninkendo on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:25PM (#22269756)

I don’t disagree, and that’s what Apple did: they implemented the battery control panel which let you know your battery’s health, gave an alert when a bad battery was causing throttling, and extended a battery replacement program for affected models.

Nobody’s saying their initial fix wasn’t flawed, I’m only saying that “throttling is bad” is an ill-thought-out knee-jerk reaction.

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Re:France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down... by kazinator on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:40PM (#22270668)

I wonder why they didn't use this simple argument in court, or else why it didn't work.

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