• Apple will give users the option to control their own battery’s destiny
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[url]https://arstechnica.com/?p=1246173[/url]
Wow, like actually how it was supposed to be form the start.
thank you papa apple for this generous gift, you truly are so good to us mere mortals, not forcing us to upgrade to your latest 1000 dollar device when older ones are completely fine
All they had to do was say "hey guys, we thought we'd let you know we've found that older batteries wear down over time so we slightly decreased the device's performance to keep it functioning okay!" That's hardly even a problem, annoying for sure but not scandalous. But instead they had to sneak it around and hope nobody would notice.
Still don't understand why they did this to begin with. Why the fuck would you allow me to control brightness settings and put my phone into "low power mode" then?
[QUOTE=The golden;53062373]The real hilarious bullshit is that they limited phone performance (the battery discharge rate) claiming it was to maintain battery health but as far as I know they did nothing to slow the charge rate of the battery... which is exactly what would damage an aged lithium battery. But yeah I know it wasn't done for actual logical reasons. It was a corporate move to get people to buy new phones on the regular.[/QUOTE] They didn't do anything to prevent further capacity degradation of a battery, but they did succeed in keeping battery life roughly the same as the battery ages and degrades. That's a perfectly logical reason for doing it. I don't disagree with your last statement, I'm sure that was absolutely the main driving force behind the decision. But what they did isn't just straight up bullshit from a technical standpoint. It just should've been optional from the get-go.
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