[dsharlet]

> That hundreds of millions of users took years to notice should be an indication this whole thing worked pretty well IMO.

People absolutely have been noticing, this has been a very popular and long running issue. It took years for Apple to admit it, not for people to notice.

I think this could have been better handled by throttling according to the actual condition of the battery, rather than controlling it via software updates. The former seems reasonable, the latter is pretty shady. (Maybe this is actually what is happening and the press has confused what is going on.)

[mehrdada]

> People absolutely have been noticing, this has been a very popular and long running issue. It took years for Apple to admit it, not for people to notice.

The behavior in question was introduced in 10.2.1 which was first released in Feb 2017.

So no, it was not a conspiracy going on for years. The annual slowdown was just poor unoptimized software. Occam's razor.

[garretraziel]

They are throttling it according to battery's condition (but actual throttling apparatus was added via an update). If you replace old battery with a new one, phone starts running at full speed again.