Apple slowing down devices to extend battery life when the battery itself is low or degraded is awesome.
All the lawsuits coming out of this over recent years are uncalled for. Users that “suffer” from this likely need to simply replace the battery.
I expect an OS (and/or kernel) to manage resources. iOS/macOS actively doing so by adjusting its behavior when the battery’s shot is exactly the kind of magic people want in Apple products—so why is the opposite true when it comes to to this subject?
It’s wild to me that someone would be so upset as to sue over this.
Edit: I’m not arguing that Apple is superior or that everyone should happily go along with buying Apple products. The way a lot of these comments are written make it sound like they’re the only smartphone manufacturer and living with their software is forced upon you. If Apple makes you angry or unhappy, I happily encourage you to seek alternatives; I don’t believe any one company can make the perfect product for 100% of people.
Apple may have had good intentions, but the optics of it are bad. It feeds into the planned obsolescence narrative.
They are the only vendor that has done this. Phones will work just fine on an aging battery, albeit with a shorter run time, as expected. It’s such an obvious cash grab.
They said they were doing it because there were occasions when a phone with an old battery tried to pull too much juice the device would become unstable and reboot. I’m sure this did happen but probably not to the extent that would require a global change.
The Samsung phones I had would stay working at full speed… then suddenly die with 25% battery power.
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No business had good intentions.
So edgy