Really? So you’d rather have your phone crash regularly instead of it slowing down? Everything you own likely has some fail safes in it. Your car, etc that prevent it from taking a **** and work on reduced power when there’s a problem. If your phone felt slow, go to Genius Bar and have them tell you your battery is bad. Same way you go to a Dr or Mechenic. If something’s wrong you typically don’t just replace with new, you find out what’s wrong and determine best path forward for you. Am I happy Apple has the battery health section now? Yes, but all these whiny people over Apple trying to allow people to use their phones with bad batteries is not malicious. Now Apple knows it’s user base better and will over disclose the **** out of everything to please the minority.
sounds like you actually haven't the clue about the timeline of events and why people are upset. hint, they're not upset over using throttling to prevent their phones from randomly rebooting.
Their upset that Apple lied to them about it, mislead them, and spent months NOT updating the Genius bar people to know what to look for, which led to Genius bar recommendations of replacing the phone instead of repairing.
I agree that the work around presented to throttle the phones was the lesser of two evils to make up for a design defect of batteries that degraded their peak power too fast (1-2 years). That is NOT the question in debate here.
Timeline of events is what made people upset.
1. People noticed their phones were slow and in an interview, Tim Cook was asked "Do you intentionally throttle old phones?". Tim outright said "NO we do not throttle devices based on their age".
2. Users were't happy with that response and did more digging. They found that yes, iPhones were being throttled.
3. Users who took their devices to Apple because of throttling, had their battery
CAPACITY only checked. Devices that passed this capacity test were outright refused battery replacement services by Apple. Even if they were willing to pay. This test was erroneous as it is NOT a CAPACITY problem, but a peak load problem. Something that Apple's testing in store DID NOT test for. Leading to a LOT of people's batteries "passing" and refusal of service.
4. Apple finally after a couple months of reports admitted that they were throttling devices that had batteries that were unable to supply peak load. And that the behaviour is intentional and was rolled out in a previous iOS patch (that did not outline the throttling, only "battery management". Further misleading users.
5. After lawsuits for the throttling came in, Apple finally relented and offered a limited time only $29 battery replacement.
What should have happened is immediately when Apple identified a design flaw that would grossly negatively affect the lifespan and health of the devices in question, that they immediately offered a battery replacement programme, a trade in offer, and fully, openly announced the failure in question. This is what people are upset over. Apple's lying and lack of transparency over this issue.
