Working perfectly fine....until they shut off randomly on walks. I had that experience for months, then suddenly my problem was fixed and I could actually make it through a walk without it shutting off in the cold.
Are you seriously contending that the shutdown issue this software addressed didn't exist?
I'm sorry, but I haven't heard of any other phones that this would happen to before or since, only iPhones. They talk about voltage spikes as if it happens only when something intensive is going on. Being in a pocket and shutting off should not cause this. There is/was something seriously wrong with Apple batteries, and rather than address the real issue, they have just crippled everyone's phone and hoped nobody would notice. Batteries die, everyone knows that. When then TV remote stops working, the first thing you do is change the batteries. If your phone was running out of charge every few hours, you'd go get the battery changed.
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You're wrong there. I took my phone to the Genius Bar for it running slow. They recommended upgrading the phone. That is their notes in their system. During discovery, they will find many more examples of exactly that.
I worked on a Genius Bar between 2011-2013 and we were told by management that we had to supplement the Red Zone by talking people round to upgrading their phone more often. "Rather than spend money on a refurbished replacement handset, why don't you go for a new contract and walk out the store today with the latest and greatest at no upfront cost?"
The amount of upgrades and sales being transferred over from GB to RZ was being monitored and we were spoken to about it many times. This is obviously the store leaders being pressured by the regional managers who are being pressured by head office. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the whole thing has been manufactured to prematurely get people to upgrade their phone and sign up for a new 2 year contract or apple upgrade program, and they make it as easy as possible to do so in store, directly from the Genius Bar.
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Why wouldn't the 8/X be prone to this throttling?
They still might be. The iP8 continues Apple's trend of somehow putting batteries that are only 60% of the capacity of competitors products (1800mAh compared to the S8 3000mAh). The iPX has a 2700mAh battery which is putting it in line with the rest of the world's understanding of what a flagship phone needs, and I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have to throttle the iPX due to it having this extra power available to it.
