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Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlements
(appleinsider.com)
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I was affected by this way before they were sued, started offering cheap battery replacements, and added a setting to disable the throttling. Today you might turn on battery saving and not notice any slow down, but older iPhones were not like that. Depending on the throttling, everything would lag.
Mine was lagging left and right after 1 year. I managed to make it better by disabling animations, etc, but after a while even that wasn't enough to keep me happy. I went to my local official Apple store and the suggestion was to buy a new phone because mine (then owned for ~1 and a half years) was a 3 year old model.
I had no idea what the problem was and there was no way to disable this. Apple's fix was to buy a new phone. When I managed to get the money, I did buy a new phone... that was my first and last iPhone though. The phone I got next (from a then new brand called OnePlus) lasted 3 years on my hands without hidden throttling or random shutdowns.
I understand why they did it and why it's useful. The problem is that they did it behind people's back without providing any information or a way to disable it, and then had their stores suggesting a new phone as a fix. For me this is scummy behaviour and shouldn't be praised.
I agree, and did not mean to imply they had any good intentions. Just that it wasn't pure malicious, evil on their part. They should have been transparent, and offered better solutions to users. They certainly could afford to do so.