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> They slowed the CPU on products with a worn out battery in order to prevent the CPU from overdrawing from the battery, causing a reboot

Only after they have made it impossibly expensive to replace some lithium.

This is an incredibly disingenuous defense of their actions. Apple is fully trying to tie hardware refreshes to the cadence of should be battery refreshes and the frog has been so boiled that android devices realized it was more profitable to follow suit.

Apple is incredibly shady and there simply isnt a defense here.




Apple is the only one regularly providing 5-6 years of full OS support on their devices, which seems to go against this logic.


They were offering $30 battery changes IIRC?

I’m not sure how my comment was disingenuous


Written from the perspective of someone whose battery never suddenly died from 30% in cold temperatures on a bike ride, leaving no way to phone your family. Apple’s power management for degraded batteries is a good thing and I wish they’d done it sooner.




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