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100%. Most users will never know or care about this. Most users just use their phones for casual internet browsing, candy crush, and texting. They'll never notice the slowdown like they would notice the battery life decrease. You have to target the main consumer base of your product and make things work well for them, even if the loud tech community minority may get upset.

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I noticed the slowdown. Never believed in planned obsolescence so I though it could be an optimisation problem in iOs 11 but problem persisted after several os updates.

I finally decided to upgrade to an X because how bad it was. Turns out it is throttling by as much as 50% (I still have the phone) so I could have just spent 79$ instead of buying a new iPhone.

The same will happen to a lot of people.

The problem is that this "Feature" is/was hidden, after 1 year when a new iPhone is launched and the person would test it , he will notice a big performance improvement so in a way he will be tricked to think the new iPhone is much more perform ant so he will be tempted to buy a new phone instead of replacing the battery. If instead he would be informed that his CPU runs at 50% because of old battery and that a battery replacement would fix the performance issue then the users would not feel cheated.

I've been an iPhone user since launch, but this really is user-hostile behavior.

I understand why they did it, and it's not bad as a field-patch to a hardware bug, but doing it silently is pretty skeevy.

They should have mentioned this in the original battery recall, and displayed a warning on the battery screen in Settings, at the least.

> casual internet browsing, candy crush, and texting.

All these slow down as well. Try using instagram on low battery.

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