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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by HumblyTossed on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:03PM (#36927029)
> I am so tired of people who interpret Apple's actions purely as anti-consumer fuckery. Even to this day, people still claim that "apple made people's phones slow down as they got older, so they would have to buy new ones" despite it being widely covered that Apple, like other phone manufacturers, slows down the CPU when they detect the battery's internal resistance rising to prevent brownouts so that the phone is usable for a longer period of time and all you have to do to restore original performance is replace the battery, apple or no.

What they did was chase thinness and so they didn't include an adequate power source for the processor they were using.

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by xethos on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:20PM (#36927140)
>> *Plenty of Android handsets just randomly start crashing as the battery's internal resistance goes up.* I had one. A Google Nexus 6.

> What they did was chase thinness and so they didn't include an adequate power source for the processor they were using.

Your comment might apply to Apple, but an iPhone was hardly the only handset that crashed as the battery stopped being able to keep up under load.

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by HumblyTossed on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:26PM (#36927179)
I still have several android phones from that era (LG G2 for one example) that are used for various purposes and theyre fine even today.
Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by squeaky-clean on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:35PM (#36927250)
I had an LG G3 and after 2 years it would die when the battery got to ~30%. Thankfully the battery was user replaceable. But LG is not immune to this.

I'm surprised an LG G2 would even run for 10 minutes today unless it's had the original battery replaced.

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by HumblyTossed on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:08PM (#36927420)
Runs all night as a music box for the kids.

Same battery.

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:42PM (#36962528)
Do you leave it plugged into the charger when it's running all night?
Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by selectodude on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:46PM (#36927314)
You must not take them out and try and use them somewhere cold.
Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by HumblyTossed on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:08PM (#36927424)
Not true
Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by kaba0 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:07AM (#36928626)
It was a more than adequate power source. Just not after 6 years of daily usage.

But if you have a better battery design, feel free to patent it and get insanely rich.

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by HumblyTossed on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:39PM (#36935098)
Stop being disingenuous. A LOT of people had issues after only a year, thats how the controversy blew up so quickly.