U.S. Government Official Questions Apple Over iPhone Battery Slowdowns

[Wanted797]

A lot of people online are defending Apple saying they did this change so peoples phones wouldn't shut off under high loads.

And that's fine, the problem is they didn't tell anyone this was how they were mitigating the sudden shutdown issue which lead consumers to believe their phones were getting slower not due to ageing batteries but due to newer software needing higher specifications which lead consumers to upgrade to newer devices at significant cost when they could have purchased a much cheaper replacement battery.

That's the problem, Apples lack of communication. Now the question which the lawsuits will be seeking an answer to is whether Apple deliberately did not explain this because they knew it would help sales of newer iPhones.

Personally I hope that Apple gets really beaten up over this because we as consumers deserve to know what their software patches are really doing at a deeper level than vague "General improvements and bug fixes" etc

Yes! I hate how The Facebook app and messenger just says ‘we regularly update this app’. Cool. Tell me what you’re doing.

 

[JForestZ34]

Apple made a change to account for defective batteries, not to progressively slow down all phones based on device/battery age.

You’re trying to hard to fabricate an issue where there isn’t one.

And you believe Apple would be 100% honest with their customers. Apparently not being this got slipped by without a word until they got caught

You gotta wonder if the engineer who devised the throttling subroutine got a bonus or got his walking papers...

I’m sure who ever decided this didn’t do it on his own or alone. I’m sure some senior execs knew and gave the go ahead ( BUT TRUST ME THEY WONT EVER TELL YOU )

James

 

[G5isAlive]

Boy, think I've been given the runaround here. Just the same question coming from Apple defenders.

Ohhhh and bringing up the CPU throttling in laptop and the car too!

You, sir, have completed the full circle.

Well you can embrace ignorance. Having a different opinion does not make one an Apple defender. Toodles.

 

[stevet]

The original reason this was put in, to stop the unexpected shutdowns on the 6s, those shut downs definitely occurred on the 4s.

While the shutdowns may have happened the throttling didn't. And I don't believe that those shutdowns were happening on 1 year old 4s's.