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A comment on Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns. Parent comment

Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by mft_ on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:20AM (#25147338)
Don’t customers have a reasonable expectation of roughly consistent performance of their device?

And to your point, car companies don’t market their cars using ‘achieving 70mph’ as a feature. It’s just a reasonable expectation of performance. They might mention the top speed, but that’s more of a specification than a marketing feature in most cases.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by arcticbull on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:53PM (#25152961)
Sure, but the performance of your car degrades as the tires bald, does it not? Fuel economy changes, cornering, maximum acceleration off the line.
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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by mft_ on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:22PM (#25155081)
Yes, and the manufacturers make it trivial to replace vital consumables such as tyres!

That Apple blocked easy battery replacement, even through their own for-profit stores, is a part of the case against them you seem to be ignoring.

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