The FACT that apple kept it secret while allowing customers to upgrade when a battery change was all that was needed is the bad thing.
Apple makes changes to iOS 6x a year, making changes to thousands of lines of code each time written by an army of developers on dozens of different teams. This was no conspiracy. This was an attempt to help loyal iPhone users avoid a shutdown in emergency situations, like what happened to me on a ski slope in 18 degree temperatures where my iPhone shut down and I couldn't call my family for an hour until I could warm it up in a ski lodge. The unintended consequence is that geeks using a geek app are claiming a slow down that is in number only, can't be felt.
Not ludicrous at all because you clearly do not understand the real issue.
Your entire premise is wrong. Apple a) would never deliberately manipulate a multi-billion dollar market and b) would never do so in a manner by which a high school student could find it so obviously. Only dumb companies do such dumb things. Apple is no dummy.
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A person who is still using a model like the 6S is either content with their phone or frugal...in either case they would more likely spend $80 to replace the battery than dish out $800-$1000 for a new phone.
Before this whole phony scandal started, my wife and I owned 2 iPhone 6's and my 3 kids owned iPhone 6S's before getting 4 iPhone X's. We have a net worth of $15M. We are not frugal. It's too much hassle to replace a battery and in the process commit oneself to another year of the same old phone. I would argue most iPhone owners are looking for reasons to get the cool new version, not hold onto the old one. Apple is not catering to the Craigslist crowd. That is an unintended consequence of all those heavily subsidized phones back in 2015.
A phone shutting down when it should have 30% battery life left would lead to the purchase of new iPhones, not the purchase of new batteries. Apple customers choose Apple because of edgy features and convenience. They're not the change-the-battery type. If there really was a conspiracy Apple would have never made the power management decision they did, they would have let the batteries die on their own, and they would have stopped selling replacement batteries.
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Slowing down an iPhone 7 that is only a year old is just wrong. I don’t expect to spend £800 on a phone to be slowed down after a year. Apple knew exactly what they were doing conning people plain and simple
And who says they are slowing down iPhone 7's to the extent that it can be felt by the user? No one. Unless someone has jailbroken the phone or is letting their phone go down to 2% battery each day. My kids usage patterns are similar. Their backlights are on 23 hours a day, Snapchat alerts, Instagram alerts, streaming movies, sending texts, the phones get no rest, their screens are always lit, draining the battery to a premature death.
And if that happened? I wouldn't blame Apple. I'd blame my kids. Let
them find $79, let
them get a ride to the mall, let
them wait for the repair. I wouldn't cry like an entitled brat needing a safe space. I'd take responsibility for my own actions, or in this case, my teens.
