Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by Spartan-S63 on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:31PM (#33782000)

I think it's simpler: there's general arrogance that Apple knows what's best for their customers. Their entire philosophy isn't about giving customers what they want, it's giving customers what Apple thinks they need. So, when you uncover phones crashing because batteries age and folks don't get their batteries serviced, you throttle the CPU in software to avoid the issue. It's pure arrogance.

We also know that Apple is stubborn (see the removal of the headphone jack), so of course it's going to take a lawsuit for them to reverse course on something like this.

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Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by Karunamon on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:10PM (#33782802)

That explains everything but the lying about the existence of the throttling. There are no ways I can square that circle other than Apple knowing what they were doing and wanting to hide it in a way that ever so coincidentally makes them more money.

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