[krutzger]

>If Apple hadn’t made this change those phones would have randomly turned off instead.

Why is apple the only company with this problem?

[hk__2]

> Why is apple the only company with this problem?

It’s the only one people care about enough. Apple gets a major "scandal" almost each year about something that affects every single smartphone company on the planet. Think of the antenna-gate or the bending issues. Lots of non-Apple phones have shown these issues, and the random shutdowns are no exception [1].

[1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/20/some-nexus-6ps-have-...

(updated to add a link)

[arvinsim]

That's natural since iPhones are being touted as the premium option while putting down Androids as "cheap" phones.

It's all about expectations.

[ovao]

Others may tout Android phones as “cheap”, but does Apple? I don’t actually recall Apple doing any negative marketing against Android.

[krutzger]

Are you kidding me? How many WWDC and product introductions have you attended?

[ovao]

I’ve never been to WWDC. I watched the most recent iPhone announcement and I don’t specifically remember any negative commentary against Android. Hence my comment and my question.

[yen223]

Plenty of non-Apple phones suffer from random shutdowns and restarts due to faulty batteries.

[lowtolerance]

They aren’t. Lots of devices utilizing lithium ion batteries experience similar issues once they get some age.

[greedo]

The Nexus has the same throttling:

https://plus.google.com/+YgorCortes/posts/CZ2GhoxgHk3

[lettergram]

You have sure done a lot of these posts...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cz2ghoxghk3&sort=byPopularity&...

[computerex]

Can you stop spamming this? This isn't reddit.