Any Russian Bots in on this gag? They made a PR mistake by underestimating how maddy-mad-mad some of you are. The software is obviously well-intentioned: as a battery ages, it’s more frail. So you open a demanding app and it crashes the whole phone? Or you open it a little more slowly, you can use it, a little slower. They should have told you.
My iPhone 6, bought in Fall ‘14, was not lasting all day by Fall ‘16. I was given an Apple battery case and had another almost year of clear sailing. Good speed, from 8 am to 12 pm. October ‘17, it’s discharging fast. I took it to the Apple Store and got it replaced. Back to normal. Fast as when I got it, but not as fast as the X. $79, true— they changed that to $29, right about cost, without labor. Into ‘18, the fourth year of its life, chugging away. What’s to dislike? I dislike not having $999 for an X, true. But the tenor of this anger is weird. The rage and phony paranoia of much of our politics these days don’t look good outside of the nether reaches of Reddit. My predictions? None of these suits will go to trial, because there’s no way to prove negligence or malign intent. Read Apple’s white paper on the matter. I got 2 years easy on the iPhone 6. I wanted the 7 but held on to my money. A present got me to 2 yrs and 9 months. Then I would rather have had an X. All Batteries Degrade and Stop Over Time. Apple controls the batteries, the hardware and the software. This allows them to do things like this, to find ways to make the phone last longer. I will end up using this phone until Fall ‘18, just as fast as it was at purchase. I call that a good deal. How do Android phones do over time? And on that side, most of the better Android phones are sealed too. And some of them exploded.
