[astrange]

European fines are entirely cope, it doesn’t mean they’ve actually done anything. Similarly laws like the GDPR and DMA aren’t made with the intent of being followed, just with the hope they’ll get fines or lead to the breakup of foreign tech companies.

There was no slowdown of devices; what happened is the devices didn’t randomly turn off anymore.

[soperj]

Then why did they go about replacing batteries for free?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne4a8d/apples-iphone-slowdow...

[astrange]

Cause old batteries are why the devices were randomly turning off.

Nevertheless, the "slowdown" is in fact faster than the alternative, because if your device turns off the task never completes.