Apple (IMO rationally) chose that people would prefer a working phone, one they can use to call emergecy services, for example, to a phone that just suddenly dies.
After the massive hissy fit the Internet threw (along with lawsuits), they added a switch. Now you can choose to have your phone suddenly die.
But the legend lives on that "Appple slowed down phones permanently!!" - even though the fix for that is a 40€ battery swap that takes 30 minutes in any mall phone repair shop.
If you left It hooked up to a charger, their fix would never have affected you. It only slowed down the cpu when the risk of catastrophic shutdown was imminent.
I like a toggle for features like this, but it was a pretty standard user experience / reliability choice imho.
what if you replace battery AFTER the fix was applied? you can't rollback.
again, it's about user's choice. it's not apple's device, but whoever bought it.
they shouldn't be even allowed to DECIDE which option is better. user should be able to pick whichever they want to go with.
With a new battery, the throttling goes away. The cpu throttling only kicks in if your battery condition is poor, and then only at lower charge levels where the risk of unplanned power loss is imminent.
I get it, but if you’re going to accept binary blob updates from a manufacturer at all, this one wasn’t bad.
If there was a toggle, Would you really run your phone in “reckless disregard for battery condition” mode?
Because that is what this fixed, a flaw in the firmware where the power management subsystem made incorrect assumptions about the battery condition. All new phones come with this baked in and working properly, so your phone doesn’t randomly die in the middle of calls when your battery gets old.
People pitchforked over this update without understanding what it was designed to do. If your phone has a good battery, it does not throttle the cpu. It just adjusts the power management profiles to reflect battery aging.
After the massive hissy fit the Internet threw (along with lawsuits), they added a switch. Now you can choose to have your phone suddenly die.
But the legend lives on that "Appple slowed down phones permanently!!" - even though the fix for that is a 40€ battery swap that takes 30 minutes in any mall phone repair shop.