Planned obsolescence by bricking old hardware?
If you asked the average user if they would rather that their phone crash, or have the top speed capped. They would all rather it did not crash.
Of course this should have been more visible to notify the user to get a battery replacement. Which it now is and there is a full battery health page. It was also never really secret or lied about. There was a mention in the change logs that no one reads.
Certainly the average user would choose "no crash _and_ not get slower", conveniently ignoring the either-or nature of the question. (Maybe "get less battery life out of a single charge" if they are trying to come up with an alternative.)
No. If you asked the average user if they would rather their phone have the speed decreased, or have a slightly thicker battery (and thus phone), they would all rather it be slightly thicker.
Yes.
The big problem was the deception, not the slowing. If they wanted to remove the speed difference between new and old phones, they'd have to slow them all down.
And especially because you can get a new battery, I find updates getting cut off so soon with android to be significantly worse than anything apple does.
And you can't get a new battery, by the way. Apple's batteries are not designed to be replaced, remember?
If they made the turbo a bit less aggressive, so slowdowns happened on fewer phones, and made it say "your battery is failing so the phone can't reach peak speed reliably", it wouldn't have been a big problem.
Batteries can only put out so many watts as they age, and apple didn't cause that to spite people into having to buy new products.
> And you can't get a new battery, by the way. Apple's batteries are not designed to be replaced, remember?
I see that as a separate issue.