Now that we know the facts and are in a position to make an educated choice, I wonder how many people choose to have their iPhone shut down rather than throttle.
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Apple's Plan to Pay $500 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over 'Secretly Throttling' Older iPhones Gets Preliminary Approval
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Huh?
What Apple belatedly did was just fine: they added transparency in the UI to show when throttling was taking place, and were forthcoming about the solution they'd engineered to deal with battery wear. If they'd done this in the first place, there would be no basis for a lawsuit.
Instead, they allowed (or even encouraged) customers to replace phones that had only slowed down because they had worn-out batteries.
September 2015: iPhone 6s releases.
November 2016: The 6s was prone to shutdown in cold weather. It was acknowledged by Apple, and they replaced it free of charge. My phone and many others were part of this "bad" batch. See https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/20/apple-iphone-6s-unexpected-shutdown/
November 2017: iPhone X released.
December 2017: Apple admitted to throttling devices to make them slower to conserve battery life without telling anyone. I think this is the epitome of a BAD user experience. See: https://www.newsweek.com/slow-iphone-apple-admits-sucking-speed-iphone-6s-and-iphone-7-754898
I had my 6s for a little over 2 years. If the phone was throttled, the battery would not have been my first guess of fault. Anecdotally, I remember I was pissed off at the phone not being performant with the newest iOS around the time iPhone X released. The 6s was fine with the OS prior to what iPhone X launched with. Like many others, I figured it was slow because the newest OS was more demanding, so therefore I upgraded to the iPhone X.
And don't lie... you wouldn't switch brands. There's no other brand that runs iOS.
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I usually hate going to the Apple store. And my issue wasn't really the battery. It was that the 6S was slow with the newest iOS at the time. So I upgraded my 6S to the X. The "sales pitch" was what I experienced owning my 6S around when the throttling started to happen.
Not sure why you’re trying to prove your experience was bad. I’m sorry it was. I never said there wasn’t a “bad batch” or a worse phone model or the batteries shouldn’t been larger etc. I’m just saying there wasn’t some conspiracy to force upgrades. Sure, perhaps a rough decision by Apple on battery size. But going to an Apple store - which I also hate doing - and being told by an employee to upgrade to a X is VERY shaky ground for a planned, forced upgrade scheme. Especially when they maintain software support.
And I absolutely would switch brands if the Apple experience was consistently that bad. Probably not one phone, you’re right - but I am in this camp because I listen to the issues my friends have on Android etc and I just shake my head... “but hey, they have a stylus! Ihave widgets! I haveUSB-c“ they say...
If I was having issues consistently here, I would try it out.
My point is that the conspiracy is plausible given the timeline of events and how Apple responded. No one from Apple is ever going to directly admit that they did this even if it was a tertiary reason for the throttling.
When you are rich and powerful it goes to you head; like 1600 Pennsylvania Ave DC
Anecdotal.
If your battery was deteriorated, Apple would have it replaced.
If you were asking to replace a still working battery, they wouldn’t.
I did it at least two times, with an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 6S. One in the USA and once in Germany.
Your conspiracy theory is baseless.
Ok, two iPhones of yours: not anecdotal, the only truth to share. My personal experience: a baseless conspiracy theory.
Thank you. See ya.
Exactly.
I’m not the one suggesting ridiculous conspiracy theories, so I’m not the one that have to demonstrate anything.
I know FOR SURE that Apple replaced worned out batteries before the “#batterygate”. Period.