If those lawsuits are based on claiming that processing performance wouldn't be compromised by a complete shutdown of the phone (like one of the legal quotes in the article), then they're all going to be dismissed.
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Apple Now Faces 26+ Lawsuits for 'Purposefully' or 'Secretly' Slowing Down Older iPhones
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If those lawsuits are based on claiming that processing performance wouldn't be compromised by a complete shutdown of the phone (like one of the legal quotes in the article), then they're all going to be dismissed.
As Apple said, the slow down was to protect the phone from shutting down and avoiding damage to the phone. Nothing was intentional in that for any other purpose. I have a friend with an android phone and a bad battery, guess what?, his phone is always shutting down regardless how often he charges it. After all this mess maybe Apple should remove the code and let phones with bad batteries just die...whats the complaint then? No battery lasts for ever and how well one takes care of them varies from user to user.
You have to give credit to Apple for cleverness since they're still profiting from the remediation after being caught swindling their customers. Apple is the only company that can get away with charging for a defect replacement.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...-laughs-at-apples-false-battery-discount.html
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...-laughs-at-apples-false-battery-discount.html
They were slowing them down to hide serious battery defects to avoid having to issue a recall on millions of iPhones.
Unintended consequence was that people thought their phone was old due to the new slowness and spent $800+ on a new iPhone.
This is good if it results in more transparency from Apple. I don't think it will, but hope it does.
This is good if Apple gets the message that a lot of people don't want thin at the expense of battery life, reliability, and promised performance. Or if some people do, then make it obvious or user selectable, at least don't make the decision for us without telling us.
This is good if Apple gets the message that a lot of people don't want thin at the expense of battery life, reliability, and promised performance. Or if some people do, then make it obvious or user selectable, at least don't make the decision for us without telling us.
Hilarious that people are mad about this.
Likely they just don’t like Apple and want excuses to dislike them... or want what they think is free money from these cases.
Likely they just don’t like Apple and want excuses to dislike them... or want what they think is free money from these cases.
I have, and still use an iPhone 6s. Their first acknowledgement and software update to handle this happened during this timeframe (around late 2016):
https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
My 6S started acting extremely slow, (UI/lag using force touch/etc.), complete with Geekbench results before and after it occurred showing the huge drop. I had the battery replaced and observed the issues going away.
I was never notified that mine was one of the affected models, and only found the top program after searching for sudden sluggishness issues.
They then released a software "fix" for this issue:
http://bgr.com/2017/02/24/iphone-6s-battery-shutdown-issue/
It's as though that software update implemented the performance throttling based on cycle counts for ANY phone, presumably to address a large hypothetical influx of future potential occurrences as additional units' batteries aged, not just the supposedly "limited number of affected IMEIs" in the top statement during the 6S battery recall.
TL;DR: smells a little like a cover-up disguised as a feature so they wouldn't have to backtrack their "only affects devices within a limited serial number range" claim in the top link
https://www.apple.com/support/iphone6s-unexpectedshutdown/
My 6S started acting extremely slow, (UI/lag using force touch/etc.), complete with Geekbench results before and after it occurred showing the huge drop. I had the battery replaced and observed the issues going away.
I was never notified that mine was one of the affected models, and only found the top program after searching for sudden sluggishness issues.
They then released a software "fix" for this issue:
http://bgr.com/2017/02/24/iphone-6s-battery-shutdown-issue/
It's as though that software update implemented the performance throttling based on cycle counts for ANY phone, presumably to address a large hypothetical influx of future potential occurrences as additional units' batteries aged, not just the supposedly "limited number of affected IMEIs" in the top statement during the 6S battery recall.
TL;DR: smells a little like a cover-up disguised as a feature so they wouldn't have to backtrack their "only affects devices within a limited serial number range" claim in the top link
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Apple is 100% guilty. The reason I upgraded to the iPhone 7 was because my 6s slowed down so dramatically, and the battery wouldn’t even last me all day at work, after the 10.2.1 downgrade.
They can use higher quality batteries like Samsung, which retain a majority of their capacity after 500 charging cycles, for starters.
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Indeed, iPhone 4/4s still has the best form factor. Fits perfectly into the pockets of my running shorts, and thanks to the iFixIt replacement battery, its battery capacity is 104% of the original battery.
Where's da lawsuitz for removin da ports from da MacBook PRO ? And me SD card reader?
For the love of God THERE ARE NO HIGHER QUALITY PARTS.
My wife's <2 year old iphone 6s with just over 400 charge cycles (see pic). She has to charge it twice a day. It's been reset fresh etc.. It's not on the recall list and whatever else you try to say to make excuses for Apple is also not true.
It holds less charge than my 4 year old iphone 5s and I'm the power user..
How can you state something so foolish when there is ample evidence that proves the opposite. Look at prior models, look at competitors, look anywhere really ffs.
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Why did Apple not mention this useful feature in the first place? Perhaps their Director of Worldwide Marketing can answer in court?
This exactly defines the new Apple. The sad part is that it seems like they are getting away with it because of Jobs' legacy. Now to be fair, Jobs did some things like this also, but he also produced high quality devices that "just worked!" At least most of the time. Cook has not been able to live up to that standard and therefore, does not get the pass that Jobs did.
For many, it didn't. My old iPhone 6 and 6s show zero slow down, either in use or when benchmarked.
A friend's iPhone 5s did slow down after updating to 11.2, but that was fixed by a reset and waiting for iCloud to finish downloading stuff (as shown by battery usage).
Yes, then people would be complaining their phones cost too much.
People act like they are owed something. Surprise, you aren't owed a damn thing. Don't like Apple or what they do? Simple, don't buy their products.
It's not based on cycle counts. Proof? 2 out of the 3 conditions that Apple mentions in regards to potential voltage issues with the battery are not due to battery age...low charge and cold. iOS is looking for large peaks/valleys in power draw relative to the voltage available to the CPU.
Sure there is. Make them user replaceable, like they should be.
Treat your customers right by allowing them to fix it or replace parts rather than soldering them would help their situation
"Keep in mind that Apple is not permanently or persistently slowing down older iPhones. Even if your iPhone is affected, the performance limitations only happen intermittently, and only when the device is completing demanding tasks.
The above is NOT TRUE Joe, and you should stop repeating it.
Apple has stated that things such as app launches, frame rates etc. are effected. These are NOT peak processor times.
Quote from the Apple web site:
"...The user may notice effects such as:
The above is NOT TRUE Joe, and you should stop repeating it.
Apple has stated that things such as app launches, frame rates etc. are effected. These are NOT peak processor times.
Quote from the Apple web site:
"...The user may notice effects such as:
- Longer app launch times
- Lower frame rates while scrolling
- Backlight dimming (which can be overridden in Control Center)
- Lower speaker volume by up to -3dB
- Gradual frame rate reductions in some apps
- During the most extreme cases, the camera flash will be disabled as visible in the camera UI
- Apps refreshing in background may require reloading upon launch"
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Do all realize that the costs of all these lawsuits will be passed back to customers as with all lawsuits? The only people who will actually benefit is all the lawyers. All the costs that a company incurs get added to costs and then charged the customers. Sue Apple has a ton of money but in the long run all costs will be paid for by the customers.
Not saying that Apple should have done things the way they did but all these lawsuits are just stupid.
Not saying that Apple should have done things the way they did but all these lawsuits are just stupid.
Fair point, though due to the nature of batteries there will always be situations such as this where the battery itself isn't behaving as expected. My 5S' battery was utterly unusable unlike yours so it's the nature of these sort of things and you will always find an exception to the rule (1st gen iPhone battery still holds a decent charge, etc.).
Regardless, I appreciate you actually responding unlike the OP. I was hoping they could provide a larger source but they didn't even offer anecdotal evidence.