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- Nov 28, 2012
Apple intentionally throttled older phones to get people to upgrade. Period. Of course they're going to claim it was another reason now that they're being sued.
Then why does testing indicate that a newer battery in an older device restores the performance?
Most people frankly won’t even notice. This is something that’s uncovered with benchmark tests designed to continuously max out performance. It’s not the kind of performance that any normal user would need on a regular basis. All modern battery powered devices throttle back. To not do so would drain a battery within less than an hour and possibly even overheat/damage the device.
I’ve worked the electronics industry for a long time, and consumers are often unrealistic about what they think can be practically done. Apple is hardly the first company to have throttled performance based on battery condition, nor the first company that didn’t tell consumers that they did it. There are tons of reports of portable devices with older batteries shutting down at seemingly random times. Sure, Apple could have handled it better, but a lot of the claims frankly seem to be unfair characterizations of their motives.
I’ve also heard anger that Apple didn’t at least give the option to override it. That’s just crazy. That’s like asking a carmaker to set an option to override a rev limiter that’s preventing the engine from destrying itself. This particular issue may not be where one is risking permanent damage, but an unplanned shutdown is hardly a reasonable trade off.