Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones

Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by manfredo on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:33PM (#22469267)

> Other phones don't have the issue because they didn't match a tiny battery with an over sized CPU.

It's not a question of if it's a question of when. All battery powered devices are subject to the limits of battery chemistry. Some phones have a bigger safety margin than others, but use the battery for long enough and it will put out less voltage than the device requires. As other commenters pointed out, other phones do indeed hit this limit.

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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by chooseaname on Monday March 02, 2020 @10:13PM (#22471478)

> It's not a question of if it's a question of when.

That's a good point and Apple's phones failed much, much sooner than any other phones. Thus the reason we don't hear of the others.

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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by manfredo on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:58PM (#22471911)

Plenty of cheap <$300 phones crap out after a year or two of use. You don't hear of them because they're not Apple.

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Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow... by chooseaname on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:50AM (#22474389)

Anecdotally, I have several of those cheap ones that are still going great. (moto g 1st gen for example). They make great music/video/game players for the kids.

Apple designed about a years worth of battery capacity into a phone most people expected to keep 2 or more years. And clearly they put too powerful CPUs into the phones because they "fix" is to throttle them!

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