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Apple iPhones Appear to Slow Down as Battery Condition Degrades: Planned Obsolescence?

posted by janrinok on Tuesday December 19 2017, @07:45PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Apple has been accused of slowing down old iPhones by tying performance to battery condition. This could cause some users to upgrade to a newer model rather than get the battery replaced:

Apple may be slowing down older iPhones in order to counteract problems with decreased battery capacity, according to Primate Labs founder John Poole. The news could add fuel to the conversation around planned obsolescence—the idea that tech companies purposely slow down older devices to encourage users to buy new models. Claims of planned obsolescence have hit almost all the big firms, and have reached the status of a major conspiracy theory in many tech circles.

In a recent blog post, Poole, whose company created the Geekbench benchmarking system, set out to detail the data behind a particular Reddit post claiming that Apple was slowing down iPhones with low-capacity batteries. The user was getting lower-than-expected scores on Geekbench, which improved after they replaced the battery in their iPhone 6S.

[...] Of course, part of the battery issues have to do with the changes that came with iOS 10.2.1, Poole wrote. Apple introduced the update to combat a bug causing the sudden shutdown of iPhone 6 and 6S models. "I believe (as do others) that Apple introduced a change to limit performance when battery condition decreases past a certain point," Poole wrote in the post.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @07:58PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @07:58PM (#611931)

    Fuck ... Apple.

    Posted from my iPhone

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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Tuesday December 19 2017, @08:16PM (3 children)

    by unauthorized (3776) on Tuesday December 19 2017, @08:16PM (#611951)

    You have that backwards mate. It's not you who fucks Apple, it's Apple who fucks you!

    • (Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Tuesday December 19 2017, @09:15PM (1 child)

      by Fnord666 (652) on Tuesday December 19 2017, @09:15PM (#611975) Homepage

      You have that backwards mate. It's not you who fucks Apple, it's Apple who fucks you!

      In Soviet Russia . . .

      • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Tuesday December 19 2017, @09:56PM

        by unauthorized (3776) on Tuesday December 19 2017, @09:56PM (#611992)

        In Capitalist America, Apple fucks you. In Soviet Russia, iPhone posts YOU!

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 19 2017, @11:22PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 19 2017, @11:22PM (#612046) Journal

      Apple... fuck!

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