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0 pointsbenhurmarcel4y ago0 comments

There’s a lot of criticize Apple for, but they are among the best in the industry for supporting old mobile phones.

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rchaud4y ago· 2 in thread

Apple giveth: firmware updates for 5 year old phones

Apple taketh away:

"Apple on Wednesday agreed to pay $113 million to settle consumer fraud lawsuits brought by more than 30 states over allegations that it secretly slowed down old iPhones, a controversy that became known as "batterygate. Apple first denied that it purposely slowed down iPhone batteries, then said it did so to preserve battery life amid widespread reports of iPhones unexpectedly turning off. "

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

thebruce87m4y ago

Extending the lives of phones with degraded batteries is a good thing. In fact, the feature still exists today.

The thing they did wrong was not telling people. Now they do.

judge20204y ago

As stated in the other comment, old batteries often physically couldn't handle the voltages required to run at peak performance, so if iPhone detected these conditions, it would temper those peaks so that the phones would stop randomly turning off for people. The issue was that they didn't tell affected device owners that this was happening, and now they do in Settings.

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