Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models' [Updated]

[cfu97]

Sigh. FaceID performed as designed and the failure was the stage hands handling the phone.

Should Apple have been more transparent? Maybe, but it doesn't make their decision wrong.

Dude most of us had used iphone x, watch the video again and clearly the iphone x just didn't work and didn't unlock. I have used iphone x for many days and 100% sure just it didn't recognize his face. They did practice crazy many times before they went on stage, they did everything as planned just that phone didn't work as planned!

This slow down all old iphone tricks definitely boost iphone sales. This is a fact. I don't know why you guys cannot even accept it.

 

[DevNull0]

Because the battery is incapable after a time of producing the necessary voltage for the higher clock speeds the phones can utilize when the batteries are fresh/new

First, any "because" is irrelevant. Apple is throttling year old phones without informing the people who own those phones. There is no legal defence to that.

Second, even if I accept your "because", Apple screwed up on the battery spec if year old phones have batteries that can't even power the phone anymore. Apple needs to be held liable for that if it's even true.

Third, Apple themselves are telling customers who want to replace their batteries that the batteries are fine, yet Apple is telling customers the battery can't power the phone without throttling. Which is it?

 

[Radon87000]

They got you to upgrade. One who is in top of all of apples nefarious tricks. /s

Okay and so? Planned obsolescence can’t be avoided as it’s there in every industry and is executed by market leaders. NVIDIA executes planned obsolescence on their video cards while AMD doesn’t. But Nvidia’s cards get exclusive features in games which is why I still buy them

 

[Michael Goff]

Apple should take some lesson from google on cloud services.

Apple should pay somebody else to do it for them until they can figure it out themselves

 

[Baymowe335]

Dude most of us had used iphone x, watch the video again and clearly the iphone x just didn't work and didn't unlock. I have used iphone x for many days and 100% sure just it didn't recognize his face. They did practice crazy many times before they went on stage, they did everything as planned just that phone didn't work as planned!

This slow down all old iphone tricks definitely boost iphone sales. This is a fact. I don't know why you guys cannot even accept it.

You're wrong. It worked as intended, proven multiple times. You're just riffing. FaceID works flawlessly...I own one and the same is true for millions of others. There has been very little FaceID negativity from owners.

The slow down is NOT a trick to boost sales. Apple is not stupid.

 

[Michael Goff]

You're wrong. It worked as intended, proven multiple times. You're just riffing.

The slow down is NOT a trick to boost sales. Apple is not stupid.

I always find it weird that people believe Apple is slowing down phones to increase sales. Because if a phone keeps slowing down for no reason, people aren’t likely to keep buying your stuff.

 

[1098474]

I assume tech support in the retail end ?

Yep, at the end of the day still Apple tho

 

[cfu97]

You're wrong. It worked as intended, proven multiple times. You're just riffing. FaceID works flawlessly...I own one and the same is true for millions of others. There has been very little FaceID negativity from owners.

The slow down is NOT a trick to boost sales. Apple is not stupid.

You sound like you own a lot of Apple stocks, lol. Cannot think logical at all. I have no idea how to communicate with you.

 

[RedRaven571]

should just be an option in settings; let the customer decide whether or not slowing the device is an appropriate trade for less crashing; even if was 'on' by default for affected devices.

 

[Baymowe335]

You sound like you own a lot of Apple stocks, lol. Cannot think logical at all. I have no idea how to communicate with you.

I do own a lot of shares, which is why I know so much more about the company than you and am so confident you're uninformed.

You've already said things like, "Iphone X sales is pretty bad" which just gives you zero credibility, not only because the English is so bad, but because it's ridiculous to think you can possibly know that at this point.

 

[cfu97]

should just be an option in settings; let the customer decide whether or not slowing the device is an appropriate trade for less crashing; even if was 'on' by default for affected devices.

This is the main reason why Apple is cheating. If they make it an option and tell everyone then yeah that is a service, but no they just secretly slow down basically all old iphone and even slow down to 60% range, their goal is definitely making all people felt their old iphones are slow and time to buy a new iphone. And they push that patch right before releasing iphone 8 and x, it is a perfect strategy!

 

[Radon87000]

I always find it weird that people believe Apple is slowing down phones to increase sales. Because if a phone keeps slowing down for no reason, people aren’t likely to keep buying your stuff.

People expect devices to slow down as they age. This is merely validation of their beliefs.

 

[Michael Goff]

People expect devices to slow down as they age. This is merely validation of their beliefs.

And if you truly believe Apple is slowing down your device on purpose and Android isn’t, why not buy an Android phone?

 

[Radon87000]

And if you truly believe Apple is slowing down your device on purpose and Android isn’t, why not buy an Android phone?

Android doesn’t have a proper tablet and watch. Google hasn’t bothered to create a mobile ecosystem which works together.

 

[Michael Goff]

Android doesn’t have a proper tablet and watch. Google hasn’t bothered to create a mobile ecosystem which works together.

Pixel book/Chromebook Plus or Pro is basically the tablet you’re looking for
Gear S3 is a great smart watch.

 

[KingSH007]

This all could have been avoided if Apple did not mess up iOS 10.

I have an iPhone 5S still on 9.3.3 with a battery having only 30% of it's original capacity! (500mAh instead of 1500mAh), and it performs just as well as when I got it on iOS 7.1. There also were no shutdown issues on iPhone 6-es and 6S-es on iOS 9. But as soon as everyone updated to iOS 10, the shutdowns started, which prompted Apple to throttle CPUs. I'm curious what exactly they changed.

 

[Michael Goff]

This all could have been avoided if Apple did not mess up iOS 10.

I have an iPhone 5S still on 9.3.3 with a battery having only 30% of it's original capacity! (500mAh instead of 1500mAh), and it performs just as well as when I got it on iOS 7.1. There also were no shutdown issues on iPhone 6-es and 6S-es on iOS 9. But as soon as everyone updated to iOS 10, the shutdowns started, which prompted Apple to throttle CPUs. I'm curious what exactly they changed.

10.2.1 added in this thing because the 6s was shutting down due to a battery defect.

 

[KingSH007]

10.2.1 added in this thing because the 6s was shutting down due to a battery defect.

I know when the throttling started, I'm curious as to why the shutdowns started on iOS 10 in the first place, because they did not happen on iOS 9.

Like I said, my iPhone 5S has only 30% capacity. On iOS 10.0 to 10.2, it would shut down. On 10.2.1 + it would throttle. But on iOS 9 right now, it's working fine. Apple messed up something.

 

[Michael Goff]

I know when the throttling started, I'm curious as to why the shutdowns started on iOS 10 in the first place, because they did not happen on iOS 9.

Like I said, my iPhone 5S has only 30% capacity. On iOS 10.0 to 10.2, it would shut down. On 10.2.1 + it would throttle. But on iOS 9 right now, it's working fine. Apple messed up something.

I’m telling you it’s a hardware issue with the 6s. Defective batteries. If that had never happened, they wouldn’t have started this at all.

 

[cfu97]

I’m telling you it’s a hardware issue with the 6s. Defective batteries. If that had never happened, they wouldn’t have started this at all.

but they applied to all iphone old models except those super old kinds.

 

[KingSH007]

I’m telling you it’s a hardware issue with the 6s. Defective batteries. If that had never happened, they wouldn’t have started this at all.

The throttling happens with SE and iPhone 6 as well. This is not a hardware-exclusive issue, unless those devices too have defective batteries.
Which is probably not true.

 

[Phonephreak]

I always find it weird that people believe Apple is slowing down phones to increase sales. Because if a phone keeps slowing down for no reason, people aren’t likely to keep buying your stuff.

That theory works for any other company. Apple fanatics buy anywa.

 

[Michael Goff]

but they applied to all iphone old models except those super old kinds.

Yep. And it will happen to phones in the future. But the reason it started was because one specific phone model started to boot loop because a hardware issue.

The throttling happens with SE and iPhone 6 as well. This is not a hardware-exclusive issue, unless those devices too have defective batteries.
Which is probably not true.

I’m just saying it started hardware.

That theory works for any other company. Apple fanatics buy anywa.

There are actually very few fanatics out there.

 

[Phonephreak]

The throttling happens with SE and iPhone 6 as well. This is not a hardware-exclusive issue, unless those devices too have defective batteries.
Which is probably not true.

I’m telling you it’s a hardware issue with the 6s. Defective batteries. If that had never happened, they wouldn’t have started this at all.

If it’s a hardware flaw. Apple need to replace the phones. They make a error. It happens it’s how you deal with the error that counts.

 

[Michael Goff]

If it’s a hardware flaw. Apple need to replace the phones. They make a error. It happens it’s how you deal with the error that counts.

Cheaper just to push a software fix. It turns out that it happens to also help with other problems, but I really don’t think it was the primary motivation.