Apple has been super effective at selling a new iPhone for existing customers for years. A yearly, or perhaps more commonly biyearly, cycle of buying a new iPhone has been very beneficial for Apple, but some have suggested that there's some foul play how Apple treats older devices.
Now it has been revealed that Apple is slowing down older iPhones as it releases a new model, or models. ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Bozobub: Apple is probably going to lose the class action suit; they pushed new phones, when a battery replacement was all that was necessary.
They do stuff like that all the time...blow a $0.05 part on a mainboard and they tell you the repair will be $150 more than what you can get the device/computer for on ebay...and just to spite you they will wipe your storage if you actually pay them to do the repair. Replacing an SMD part isn't as easy as replacing a battery...but the extra labor is offset by not needing to pay apple for a battery. That's why Apple keeps 3rd parties from getting access to the tools that identify the problem in seconds; they don't want people fixing them.
... or they could have simply made it a setting for the user to turn on/off. That way, IF the user is experiencing sudden crashes, they can choose to implement the slowdown or not.
My question is, does replacing the battery really fix the slowdown? I'm very doubtful.
glad i hate apple products. even if i did own one, i would NEVER pay that much for a phone, (1000.00, for what? same shit you got last version. with NOT MUCH better specs) but hey its your money.
