> It's possible Apple wasn't thinking of the users, but it's not a clear cut case.
Court cases are rarely won, especially with big companies. They have the money to drag them out so most are just settled. So in my eyes any class action lawsuit a company settles for millions is a case they lost.
When will you admit that it was a clear case? They just admitted it themselves by settling!
I give up :-)
Imho there's a reasonable case that they did the thing which best protected users older devices and daily usable time, and I think most users would prefer their phone stays working for a day on a single charge, so they can make and receive calls and messages towards the end of the day.
It's possible Apple wasn't thinking of the users, but it's not a clear cut case.
It's also possible that if Apple hadn't slowed the older phones down as batteries wore out, they would have seen more sales as users needed to replace their phones more urgently as battery life dropped. So it's not obvious that the action they took favoured sales anyway.