| More accurately, the French DGCCRF fined them for not notifying users that it was happening: https://web.archive.org/web/20200207222719/https://www.econo... The lawsuits currently being settled are the same: they haven’t stopped doing it, but now there’s a clear UI explaining why it’s happening when it happens. > Apple only slowed the phones after a software update, not as a natural response to battery degradation. if that were the case it wouldn't be unique to that specific phone anyways. It’s not unique to that model, or even Apple, as was widely covered at the time. They added that battery management feature in a software update in response to data showing a fair number of users were affected by unexplained shutdowns, so it affected the population of people who had been aware of their phones’ battery health but the problem was that it happened without notification instead of popping up a “your battery is dying!” warning. You might find https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an... interesting: > Users expect either full performance, or reduced performance with a notification that their phone is in low-power mode. This fix creates a third, unexpected state. While this state is created to mask a deficiency in battery power, users may believe that the slow down is due to CPU performance, instead of battery performance, which is triggering an Apple introduced CPU slow-down. This fix will also cause users to think, “my phone is slow so I should replace it” not, “my phone is slow so I should replace its battery”. This will likely feed into the “planned obsolescence” narrative. |