And again, I agree with them giving users more info on what is going on but I also understand why they didn't. Most people choose apple because of the simplicity and they don't want to know a bunch of this stuff. Though it was the wrong choice in this case. I just don't think this was some money grab.
Source? Nowadays the boundaries of hardware and software are blurred, the hardware performance is so dynamic that it now resembles the software paradigm and what was once only achieved in software is now occurring in hardware. Also Apple is a black box company, so everything is speculation, there should be no trust. All we know is the devices run slow, the batteries are probably not the only reason and we have Apple's word on the reasons - they are totally lacking in credibility IMO. The most likely reason is planned obsolescence. Retrospect is showing that a whole bunch of people have thrown away good money for a beautifully designed and engineered rubbish product.
Or maybe, just maybe, the CPUs and GPUs got more powerful, and Apple miscalculated what that COULD mean as batteries aged.
And consumables should not be baked into a product that is supposed to last. All the phone manufacturers should return to user replaceable batteries until those batteries are no longer classified as consumable. There ought to be a law against it.
That's true, if I'd known at the time the shutdowns and subsequent slowdowns were caused by the battery I would have been straight in to the nearest Apple store demanding a new battery under warranty. Millions of others would have probably done the same which is why I think they kept quiet about it.
