As an example they claim 10 reasons not to believe Bloomberg and cite two other pieces they have wrote, both proclaiming apples innocence.
They literally give the same reason multiple times, and the reason is little more than "Apple wouldn't lie!". Apple has been caught lying in the past about other things like battery life.
That's a stretch to say that they were lying. They weren't lying about the battery life nor did they claim that they weren't changing the clock speed of the device. They simply claimed to have different motivation for doing so (namely, to keep older phones from completely turning off) than what others assume was the motivation (intentionally slowing phones to gain more sales).
1. Do increasingly heavy OS releases slow older machines (yes. Though ios12 has reversed this trend.)
2. Does iOS deliberately throttle older machines.
The latter is the particular issue. It relates to 2 or 3 iPhone models with only when they have dodgy batteries, so I don’t think the accusation of generally nerfing old phones really holds.
I do agree, however that Apple absolutely should have made it clear what was happening. Very poor communication, but not, I think malicious
You are right but arguing semantics. They kept the same battery life true but they did this by slowing the phones below the specs they advertised, thats plain lying.
It took a year of people calling them out before they admitted it. True they never admitted to lying, but they did admit the year long omission, they just claimed it as a feature, classy.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/21/apple-adm...
> they did this by slowing the phones below the specs they advertised
What specs are you referring to here? Apple doesn’t publish processor speed “specs”.
You have batteries that decay and processors that scale; It's a feature of the processor that it scales down to protect the battery. If they were the only one in the industry that did it, or it didn't make longevity and safety sense, then maybe not mentioning "we prevent your device from randomly dying or catching on fire as much as the next device" is normal.
I don't see many devices using lipo that sell the feature "we prevent your device from catching on fire by killing it"; though they hopefully all have thermal shutoffs.
The word "lying" to me (whether by omission or not) insinuates that the intent was malicious and used to cover up or misstate something with the purpose of misleading consumers. That's not what happened here. The intent wasn't malicious but, rather, to extend the lifetime of batteries that, because of the laws of thermodynamics and physics, were getting to the point where they couldn't sustain performance. They absolutely should have communicated somehow that this was the reason they were doing this but they never denied that this is what was happening because it was assumed that this was common knowledge for LiPo batteries.