How does the "slowing down" story keep coming up when it's clear it was the best solution to the problem "what to do when users have the same battery for 3+ years and the device literally cannot sustain itself anymore".
As for your question, do you really trust in Apple's PR? "Privacy, green, ethical labor"
Oh almost forgot, another case:
3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...
Using this logic, please explain the pattern with #2 and #3.
I see: https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/apple-airtag-tips
Not so good for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
AirTags don’t require the U1 chip. It is required for precision finding.
Seems like I’m entertaining a bad faith argument.
Some people might brush notifications - either be 3 days as the reporter suggested (self tag) or right away as OP (stranger's tag)
Just a hypothesis, but Apple has a history of doing this as seen in 1,2,3 above. Its PR is genius, always spinning the narrative.
#3 update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l3f1KrMQeo
No iPhone or Android device available actually prevents you being tracked.
No smartphone prevents someone wanting to track you from using a cheap GPS tracker, Tile or another old cellphone to trace your location.
Airtags aren't made for tracking people and are actually the only tracker that will alert anyone at all of their potentially unwanted presence.
Behind its "privacy" PR, Apple is secretly nudging people to buy more iPhones again...
Past tricks to make people upgrade:
1. Slowing down: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
2. "Other" storage: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/666721