Apple admits it slows down performance on iPhones with old batteries

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/...slows-down-iphones-with-old-batteries/9278728

 

Apple is a mix of pure evil and greed. I never own any Apple products.

 

I always wanted an Apple iMac.

 

Remember apple always knows what's best. sic

 

"Our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers"

If it was really something to give you a better experience then it would be a setting to be enabled and disabled at the discretion of the user not Apple.

 

X2..

I hate Apple I wouldn't own one of their products if you gave it to me.

 

Me Too. Others can say what they want, but it is so relaxing to not be forced to upgrade and to put up with those patches ( and don't forget about the borked patches) many times a month.

 

But you also have patches with macOS. In my experience, it is exceptionally rare for a Windows Update to cause serious issues. Sure, that's not the case for everyone, but it has been my experience during many years of using Windows on many different computers.

Perhaps there are less issues with updates with macOS. I've done my best to use it as little as possible, so have very little experience with it.

 

If that's what you hate Windows for, I agree with you. But instead of going to the Apple route, I switched to Ubuntu years ago, which generally has fewer occasions of updates and far smaller size of the patches. I haven't touched Windows for several months now. Best of all, it's free.

 

They are priced out of my means, I'm afraid. - https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro

 

iMac's are expensive. I came across a legal deal I couldn't refuse with my iMac. Got it new and custom built for less than half price at Apple.

 

That's great.

 

Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones

 

The only reason I own an (old) apple computer is necessity not because of the cult of apple. I hold ZERO allegiance to them. They are as untrustworthy as M$. You have to lock BOTH of them down. The phone battery saga is typical of what Apple would do. Just looks like "planned obsolescence" to me.

 

That is pretty heinous, in my view. But as already mentioned just as bad as M$ treatment of its users preferring to stay with older (still supported) OSes.

 

The software giants have been doing similar for decades except they do it by bloating their software with updates that make it progressively slower and more resource hungry for little to no user gain, to drive the new PC market.

 

And when you see some of the obscene paypackets these people rake in, it's all about greed (at the very least).

 

That plus the wall street corporate model that requires consistent year on year profits for the stock holders.
You can't have a product that saturates the market within a few years and still works fine, so one way or another you have to make sure the masses keep regularly buying a new one.

 

They determined that many years ago with the light bulb.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

http://economicstudents.com/2012/09/planned-obsolescence-the-light-bulb-conspiracy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

 

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech

 

Nice links Krusty I didn't know about the light bulb scam, makes for interesting reading, I especially liked the Wikipedia article on planned obsolescence.

 

It IS planned obsolescence. How strange that some people think that's OK. I call it corrupt. It's not only light bulbs either, how about car batteries. I had one last nearly 15years (years ago of course). Outside of paying dearly there's no way you get that now. If something lasts a long time, consider it a manufacturing mistake.

 

Absolutely, you have to look at manufacturing from a bygone era to find things without those special weakly made parts that are designed to break after so many uses.
Last year I bought an old sewing machine for ten dollars at a yard sale. When I got home I took off the side panel and my jaw dropped, it was entirely solid steel, machined parts, not a shred of plastic anywhere, a thing of beauty in my eyes lol.
All that was missing was a drive belt which I found online for a few dollars. I oiled it and turned it on, it ran like a top, smooth as silk. I bet it runs as well today as the day it was made.
I researched the model number it was made in 1954 at what was then, the brand new Toyota car factory in Japan which they were very proud of because it had state of the art machinery on which they also made the Morse sewing machine.
I'm sure it would put almost any modern manufacturing to shame because I very much doubt anyone will be marvelling at the quality of anything made today, seventy years from now lol.

 

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....and all the more irksome when there's a tiny little part that can incapacitate a whole otherwise solid system especially when you have to move a mountain to get at it, or it has one of those unique little Apple screws that only the initiated have the (proprietary) tool to remove it.

We have an ancient sewing machine too. Built like a tank and will outlast us for sure. I can think of numerous things that are not what they they used to be - certainly light bulbs - and too many useless matches in the box that either don't work at all or the top falls off and burns a hole in your new jeans - or new clothes that fall apart after the first wash - and on and on. You'd be seriously naive to believe all this hasn't been done on purpose. But just think of all the throw away toxic waste from these planned failures. I don't believe Apple gives a flip about that just like all the other greedy giants. Nor do I believe their rhetoric about safe recyclable products. I don't know what Apples packaging is like these days but it sure was over the top back when I got my G4.