Can’t speak for others, but I’m not defending Apple. In fact, putting pressure on them is just good for consumers. I am glad they will have to think twice about batteries, longevity, optimizing iOS for older devices and communication. That is good. I do not feel sorry for them or have the need to justify them.
However, I hate conspiracy theories, making uninformed conclusions, oversimplification and misleading people. Or following some emotionally charged narratives. This is the kind of thinking that gets people to talk how vaccines are bad at family dinners, or how the moon landing was a hoax.
In the age of internet and social media - everyone’s an expert, everyone knows how things work and how things happen and these explanations are always simple to understand and often wrong and dangerous.
I like to “defend” (if I defend anything) complex explanations and getting informed the best I can (even though my knowledge is average at best) every chance I get. Even on a forum like this.
Instead of a nuanced, complicated but truthful discussion about batteries, design, technology - it’s easier to just explain it all by “planned obsolescence” or an idea that Apple is just greedy. This is what I’m against. No, Apple is not doing planned obsolescence. And yes they are profit focused, but viewing it as greed is having a very narrow outlook. Anyone with a minimum of understanding knows that planned obsolescence would quickly bankrupt Apple, but this is the most common explanation here.
Some people here claim you can have security without updates, some people think there is some mystical battery technology that would make all these problems go away but Apple decides not to use it, some people are comparing completely different devices (“If Nokia didn’t throttle, why would an iPhone”) etc. The lack of understanding is worrisome, and at the same time, myths that are easy to understand but fundamentally wrong are being born here - myths that will be told at dinner tables for years to come. Like the one where Apple is slowing down your phone so you’d buy a new one. Or that vaccines cause autism. Or whatever.
As for Apple, sure I like the company. But I’m not defending them, nor do they need my defense. I write these long posts in hopes someone will read them and start thinking beyond these superficial “answers”. Usually, though, it just ends with someone saying I am a sheep or drink Kool-Aid
Well written post. My problem is that Apple always tells us how great,fast,efficient their chips are and then uses a battery that can’t power the phone correctly. I’m sorry if your chip can’t be powered with throttling something is wrong. IMO in apples desire for thin they cheated on the battery. They are using cheap battery’s. I have rc car loops that have hundreds of charges and all work fine. They don’t throttle the battery because it’s getting old. The car just doesn’t run as long. When this happens I don’t go buy a new $1000 car. I buy a new battery.
