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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by vbezhenar on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:36PM (#33779208)
I'm pretty sure this is not true. They slow down the device when battery can't provide enough current to sustain unthrottled CPU. Its happening in the latest iOS. It happened with my 5 year phone few months ago which suddenly turned off. I don't even feel this throttling but it doesn't turn off anymore.

On an unrelated note, my Google Pixel 7 just hanged up. It didn't happen to me since windows XP I think. It's the worst phone I've ever owned.

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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by skrowl on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:45PM (#33779341)
It's 100% true, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Not only did it go to court, Apple admitted doing it and paid over $100M in damages.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...

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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by vbezhenar on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:50PM (#33779421)
This article states that Apple did that to increase battery life. Do you have other sources to back your claims?
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by skrowl on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:24PM (#33805173)
They LITERALLY lost a court verdict that said they did it to screw customers.

I don't care what Apple's PR said, the court found that the AG complaint of "Many consumers decided that the only way to get improved performance was to purchase a newer-model iPhone from Apple, ... Apple, of course, fully understood such effects on sales." was correct and that Apple had to pay up.

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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by umanwizard on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:20PM (#33779861)
Apple admitted slowing down old phones. They DID NOT admit that the reason they did so was to force people to upgrade sooner. That is something you made up.
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by 411111111111111 on Monday November 28, 2022 @03:48PM (#33779388)
I've got a pixel 6. Its honestly been a disaster as far as I'm concerned. It's way less stable then my previous 300€ Motorola with stock Android was.
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by vel0city on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:03PM (#33779586)
Do you happen to use Firefox? I've found a lot of my stability issues on my 6a were related to Firefox on my phone. Installing firefox beta, going to about:config, and setting apz.overscroll.enabled to false seems to have fixed all the stability issues I was having.
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by bigfudge on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:21PM (#33779874)
This is exactly the sort of reason I don’t think I could ever switch back to android.
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by vel0city on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:54PM (#33780394)
For what its worth, this is the first time I've had such an issue with stability on Android going back to a Moto X 2014, my first Android phone.
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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by SoftTalker on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:06PM (#33779643)
The cheap Motorola "Moto G" phones (unlocked/no carrier bloatware) have been the best ones I ever owned. I have a Samsung Galaxy now from AT&T (not my choice) and it's horrible.
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