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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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