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I don't think privacy works when I don't trust Apple period. They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life. This feels like lip service till I see implementation details(and even then I want to see the code).

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When you say "implementation details", do you mean things like their Safari Privacy White Paper[0], their Photos Tech Brief[1], their Location Services White Paper[2], or their Apple Sign On White Paper[3]?

[0]: https://www.apple.com/safari/docs/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_201...

[1]: https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/pdf/Photos_Tech_Brief_Sept_...

[2]: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Location_Services_White_P...

[3]: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Sign_in_with_Apple_White_...

No no no, they mean things that confirm their biases.

By decreasing battery life, do you mean decreasing performance so the battery doesn’t prematurely die? I think most of us admit they could have relayed it to users better; but, what they did was far from nefarious.

If you mean something else, I’m curious.

They throttled the phones with bad batteries so the peak energy usage doesn’t exceed what the battery can provide and shuts down the phone. But unfortunately people just remember the click bait headlines.

>They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life.

I was under the impression they throttled devices with poor batteries to _increase_ battery life.

No story anywhere describes Apple decreasing battery life.

They have sometimes reduced performance in order to increase battery life.

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