[daemoon]

> On the "we con you to buy a new $1000 phone every year by manipulating the CPU/battery so instead you paying $70 for a new battery, we skin you" they did pretty bad and I will never buy another Apple device for that.

Three things:

1. It takes more than a year, maybe 3-4, to degrade the battery enough for it to affect performance in any way.

2. There are many iPhone models at different price points, the cheapest one being $399.

3. If they didn't cap the performance they would be making headlines for "Older iPhones suddenly power off for no reason" instead.

Their only mistake was to not communicate good enough to the users that performance would return back to normal after a battery replacement.

[lotsofpulp]

You can easily notice the difference in a battery after it has gone through 500 charge cycles, which can easily happen in 2 years.

Even my mom has it happen from using Facetime all day.

[daemoon]

> You can easily notice the difference in a battery after it has gone through 500 charge cycles...

Of course, that's how batteries work. However, 500 charge cycles will likely not affect CPU performance but rather the battery life (which is why I said "enough for it to affect performance").

I had 1352 charge cycles and 75% battery health before replacing it and even though the battery life was shortened, I did not experience any sudden shut downs.