Every time I read comments like this, I look around me at the plethora of Apple products that are 4, 5, 6 (mostly) trouble-free years old, mostly still receiving software updates to this day, and I think to myself: this comment does not at all accord with my lived experience.

Also apple does very reasonable battery replacements and has stores in many locations to do this.

Well there are a lot of people on HN so there is bound to be someone who gets a lemon and then extrapolates that to the entirety of apple products.

You’re really, really poorly informed on the battery issues. Apple didn’t slow phones down. It’s a basic fact of physics and chemistry that all rechargeable batteries will lose capacity over time, even if they’re not used. Once the capacity loss is high enough, the battery cannot supply enough current for demanding times and the phone would just shutdown without warning. All that Apple did was slow down the processor to avoid shutdowns so that phones with older and aged batteries could be usable for longer. This is contrary to ignorant allegations like yours.

What I’ve said above is not new. IIRC, Android also followed in the same footsteps much later.

You know what would fix that?

Replaceable batteries.

And they lost the lawsuit.

I can think of 8-10 places in walking distance of my house where I can get a new iPhone battery installed. Although it’s more fun to do it yourself!

fartcannon indeed