Apple admit to 'Slowing Down iPhones'
Discussion
grumbledoak said:
That ^^^ is pretty damning.
I've always thought the Apple fans were being taken for a ride and that supports it.
bI've always thought the Apple fans were being taken for a ride and that supports it.
ks!It is inconclusive.
My £0.02
New iPhone = New features = New OS... new version of Apps to support new phone - lots of downloads etc etc
If indexing of emails etc - needs to occur - more work
Does my iPhone 6 plus run slower than now? Of course. But then the current OS is far more beefy than the one when I bought it.
Has my iPhone slowed down - and then sped up? Yes. But this could be to an interim patch or above.
Is there an element of owners wanting newer shiny toys? I am sure it is a factor.
But right now - that one chart is inconclusive.
It might trigger you to start asking some questions - but it is not a smoking gun to the answer,
The one good thing out of this- is that the whole fiasco may trigger Apple into - "Why don't we make the battery user replaceable?"
Troubleatmill said:
Does my iPhone 6 plus run slower than now? Of course. But then the current OS is far more beefy than the one when I bought it.
Is it, though? I suspect the hardware requirements are not quite as stepped as you might imagine. What have they really added to the stacks which requires significantly more persistent compute? Troubleatmill said:
The one good thing out of this- is that the whole fiasco may trigger Apple into - "Why don't we make the battery user replaceable?"
I'll take that bet 
My phone wiped itself last month, in order to restore it I had to update it to ios11. After doing this, my phone battery dies within about 4 hours now. Took it to the Apple shop itself earlier in the week, was told they couldn't replace it due to me having already replaced the battery last year.They teste the battery and said it was working at 96% efficiency, so essentially, it's their software that's causing the issue, yet they still refused to replace the battery. Appauling!
8V085 said:
Can you imagine what would happen if car manufacturers introduced secret throttling when fuel filter gets clogged up in order to improve customer's experience by preventing stalling instead of telling them that their fuel filter needs changing? I'd be fking PR suicide.
Unless it was apple, then you'd have people making excuses for them.king PR suicide.Good thing they don't produce cars. yet
ZesPak said:
8V085 said:
Can you imagine what would happen if car manufacturers introduced secret throttling when fuel filter gets clogged up in order to improve customer's experience by preventing stalling instead of telling them that their fuel filter needs changing? I'd be fking PR suicide.
Unless it was apple, then you'd have people making excuses for them.king PR suicide.Good thing they don't produce cars. yet
Apple seem to have some kind of hypnotic power over their customers, and like I said earlier, are going to get away with it.
grumbledoak said:
Does my iPhone 6 plus run slower than now? Of course. But then the current OS is far more beefy than the one when I bought it.
It could be, this is not a certainty and just speculation on your part.What IS certain, is that Apple slows down your device when the battery gets older. Found out by multiple sources then confirmed by Apple.
grumbledoak said:
The one good thing out of this- is that the whole fiasco may trigger Apple into - "Why don't we make the battery user replaceable?"
They will, but first they are going to allow SD cards like the competition so that you can buy a model with less memory and save a lot of money.It's on the roadmap:
- Pigs fly
- Hell freezes over
- Apple makes their devices more user serviceable
otolith said:
bks, anybody else and nobody would give a st. Well, unless the device actually catches fire, I suppose.
There was massive coverage of Samsung's battery issue and Samsung dealt with it. That was a technical issue, not a deliberate after sale attempt to lower the performance of your handset to promote sales of newer versions.ks, anybody else and nobody would give a st. Well, unless the device actually catches fire, I suppose.gregs656 said:
ZesPak said:
Samsung was incompetent, Apple is guilty.
You chose your dictator.
Dictator? Really? You chose your dictator.
Rawwr said:
If Samsung had deliberately engineered the Note 7 to burst into flames moment before the Note 8, that'd be a fair comparison 
This, basically.Maybe they did it on purpose but instead of happening just after warranty they messed up and it happened within warranty to a number of devices
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