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They have never slowed down “old phones”. Anyone still spreading this is doing so maliciously by this point.

They slowed individual handsets with degraded batteries to prevent resets. They still do. Replacing the battery brought the device back to full speed.

They got flak for not telling the user, so they alert now. All new iPhones have this feature.

Ironically this was actually to extend the life of the device - many people who would have upgraded if their phone was resetting under high load just carried on using it throttled (my wife included).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

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Apple slowed down old phones with old batteries.

Apple is the only malicious perpetrator here. For many years they had specifically denied that they were doing this. That is malicious and borderline criminal damage.

Then when they got caught they came up with plausible deniability. It was evil, it was dishonest and it was awful.

What you have posted is not supported by any evidence at all.

Replacing the battery brought the handset to full speed. How do you fake this well enough for it to be only “plausible deniability”?

Apple lost a class action in the US and there is another UK class action pending.

The Apple PR people are reaching pretty low trying to deny this ever happened.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67911517

Nobody is denying the existence of batterygate. Apple now describe the throttling on their website. The class action is around the notification to the users when the feature first came out. If they got “caught” then the feature wouldn’t still exist today, but it does.

> Then when they got caught they came up with plausible deniability.

This is the bit you need to prove. You are implying that they were maliciously doing something underhand rather than implementing a feature to stop degraded batteries causing reboots. How do you implement the exact features required for degraded battery management when you are trying to do something else like slow phones to sell more? That’s the bit you need to explain.

I refer to my previous statement.

The one where you incorrectly claim they lost a class action case, when in fact they reached a settlement?

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