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If the battery life becomes "horrible" within two years, I'd question if it was sufficient in the first place. I've had non-Apple phones in use for significantly longer than that without meaningful battery loss (i.e. I don't have to charge more frequently).

It also seems that you could throttle the CPU, but provide the user a way to override it. That'd be far more reasonable IMO.

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In terms of user experience, having the option to override might confuse those who aren't power users, and some users may unintentionally experience something that isn't the "ideal path" chosen by Apple if they do choose to opt out of the throttling experience.

Of course, maybe iPhones could just tell the users to replace batteries if battery life starts to deteriorate below a certain threshold.

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