Apple confirms iPhones with older batteries will take hits in performance

So Apple, in order to improve performance degradation due to aging batteries, is... throttling device performance.

Consider me not sold on this line of reasoning. It might be more believable if there had been transparency on that feature before it was found out. Say, if Apple auto-enabled low-power mode 100% of the time after X number of duty cycles. And allowed users to opt-out and simply run down the batter faster if desired. And it didn't happen to coincide with the drop-date for the next iPhone version quite so neatly.

So, color me skeptical on this one. Anyone aware of similar shenanigans on Samsung sets?

Nothing to do with batteries. Planned obsolescence. They want you to buy a new iPhone.

Next time I'm going to buy a generic smartphone, like a Xiaomi.