You are being extremely disingenious (lying yourself?)
They are not "outright lying" like you claim, considering you explain why what they're saying is true ("phone throttling its power draw" = slowing down)
Purism is insinuating that the primary reason why Apple throttled phones was to force you onto a new one, which is false. I think most people would rather have a phone that runs slow than a phone that randomly shuts off (increasing the lifespan compared to doing nothing and making people think their phone was broken.) Where Apple went wrong was not telling anyone they were throttling their devices, and not letting you force them to run at full power (which they changed later after the media backlash.)
> primary reason why Apple throttled phones was to force you onto a new one, which is false
If you believe Apple's marketing, it's false. If you look at customers' reaction, it's likely true. There were a lot of complains after every update, and the only known solution was to buy a new phone.
Or replace the battery. I had one of the affected phones and it performed exactly the same with a new battery as it had with the original one during the first couple of years.
That’s not the claim which Purism made or which is being repeated in this thread – because there’s obviously limited marketing value in saying “battery health used to be hard to tell on our competitor’s device but it’s been easy for over 6 years”.
Now keep reading all the way to the third sentence in the quote, where they characterize the motivation as getting people to buy new phones, when Apple, and other manufacturers, claim to be doing it to keep older phones usable.
Now, if it was some random internet poster I might excuse this as fanboys being tedious or spending too much time on clickbait sites but this is an official publication from a direct competitor. They have to have expertise in this subject to be capable of building devices and anyone capable of designing a phone is going to know this is a real problem.