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Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by mratzloff on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:00PM (#8091805)
> I wonder if this is also due to new major iOS versions being released at the same time as new iPhones, and these updates add more intensive features (e.g. apps open in the background) and are designed more with the most modern devices in mind.

So you wonder if it's the same theory posited in the article itself..?

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Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by manicdee on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:29PM (#8091869)
The theory in the article is that Apple is intentionally making the older devices slower.

The theory you are responding to is that Apple is intentionally adding new features to iOS, which incidentally makes older devices slower because they're trying to do more work.

Is it a "conspiracy to make your device slower" when Apple adds new features to later versions of iOS? They're not intentionally adding in "slow down a bit here and encourage the user to upgrade to a new phone" code. So there's no conspiracy.

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Re:Hold the Phone: A Big-Data Conundrum by jessriedel on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:40AM (#8092152)
Read the article more carefully. The author explicitly considers both theories.
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