A lot of people feel Apple behaved inappropriately (for reasons mentioned multiple times in this thread) and a good way to discourage similar behavior in the future is to "punish" the company financially in hopes that they (and other companies) will think twice about doing something similar (again). If that means some people will get a few bucks who don't necessarily deserve it, so be it. You can't expect things to be perfect. Even the "best" medications can have undesirable side effects.
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A lot of people feel Apple behaved inappropriately (for reasons mentioned multiple times in this thread) and a good way to discourage similar behavior in the future is to "punish" the company financially in hopes that they (and other companies) will think twice about doing something similar (again). If that means some people will get a few bucks who don't necessarily deserve it, so be it. You can't expect things to be perfect. Even the "best" medications can have undesirable side effects.
That’s the main aim of regulators here. That is to try to persuade companies to be more transparent to consumers and not just arbitrarily as well as sneakily change something that as a result diminishes/downgrades the functionality of their products without at the very least explaining what is happening.
the issue wasn’t the software update, as that actually fixed a problem.
The issue was Apple not telling people that a battery replacement would resolve it.
This is one of the issues that pissed me off the most, with nagging fanboys still to this day twiddling their thumbs with Apple did nothing wrong behaviour. 
Apple simply made way way way more money up selling new iPhone as our 6 and 6S slowed down to a crawl, and only some random guy on Reddit called them out as a battery change would bring those phones back to life at much lesser cost than buying a new phone.
In my family at least 3 iPhones were discarded and upgraded due to this, however since the revelations old iPhones are promptly given new lease of life with new batteries and are handed down.
www.spokesman.com
For people who worship for profit companies do have a read “The Pinto Memo”. Where it was cheaper to pay off victims than do a known safety recall.
Apple simply made way way way more money up selling new iPhone as our 6 and 6S slowed down to a crawl, and only some random guy on Reddit called them out as a battery change would bring those phones back to life at much lesser cost than buying a new phone.
In my family at least 3 iPhones were discarded and upgraded due to this, however since the revelations old iPhones are promptly given new lease of life with new batteries and are handed down.
The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
www.spokesman.com
For people who worship for profit companies do have a read “The Pinto Memo”. Where it was cheaper to pay off victims than do a known safety recall.
No, stop there. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about people who still believe the fix itself was the scam.
If you upgraded the phone because you were given the wrong advice from Apple as to how to restore full functionality then I agree that you should be recompensed for that.This is one of the issues that pissed me off the most, with nagging fanboys still to this day twiddling their thumbs with Apple did nothing wrong behaviour.
Apple simply made way way way more money up selling new iPhone as our 6 and 6S slowed down to a crawl, and only some random guy on Reddit called them out as a battery change would bring those phones back to life at much lesser cost than buying a new phone.
In my family at least 3 iPhones were discarded and upgraded due to this, however since the revelations old iPhones are promptly given new lease of life with new batteries and are handed down.
The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
For people who worship for profit companies do have a read “The Pinto Memo”. Where it was cheaper to pay off victims than do a known safety recall.
Throttled iPhone 6S scores still show faster CPU than iPhone 6 scores.
Regardless you can turn it off and have full performance. Or buy a new battery when Apple offered it for cheap. Don't know what your complaint is.
Because AAPL spends lots of effort to make changing iPhone batteries seems like not a option
Different opinions for different folks. Critics don’t always have the right answer.This is one of the issues that pissed me off the most, with nagging fanboys still to this day twiddling their thumbs with Apple did nothing wrong behaviour.
And whats the excuse other years when apple makes way more money selling iPhones.
In my family none were discarded. I did have my 6s batter replaced though and the phone got some new life.
I’ll skip thank you. Of course this is the exact same situation.The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
The Pinto Memo: ‘It’s Cheaper to let them Burn!’
For people who worship for profit companies do have a read “The Pinto Memo”. Where it was cheaper to pay off victims than do a known safety recall.
And you never knew iPhone batteries are a pain in the butt to change?
For me I’d just book a Genius Bar appointment, go to appointment, have battery replaced, come home.
i wouldn’t call that a ‘pain in the butt’.
Who cares if they were duped? That's not Apple's problem that their marketing works. I have a a 6s that worked better after the update
This is just like Antennagate. Apple made a design decision that had a major flaw and people turned around and sued because they made a mistake with a brand new antenna design.
Apple was trying to solve older iPhones randomly rebooting because the battery current wasn't stable enough and the CPU was going through a reboot. Before the update happened, my 6s would randomly reboot every 4-6 hours or so, sometimes in the middle of a call. After the update years ago, it hasn't randomly rebooted since.
It seems some do.
Apples marketing is very effective.
My 6s worked much better after I replaced the battery. Also my Xs max worked much better after I replaced the battery. My iPhone 7 also worked much better after the battery was replaced.
Don’t flatter yourself. I mean I had to edit out a lot of nonsense before I got to one sentence that mattered.