Apple is slowing down old iPhones on purpose

ThopHayt

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/21/technology/apple-slows-down-old-iphones/index.html

Yep, I always suspected this... Apple is making older iPhones slower. They "claim" it is to help battery life, but why would they give a shit about an aging battery when they WANT batteries to die so they sell more phones. I expect law suits, and/or backlash.

 

Nut-Nights

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You cant do anything, People are ready to sell their kidneys for that shit.

 

Kingping17

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Deliberately slowing phone? That is definitely not good from such a renowned brand

 

amoon

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they sabotage they own product ...to force customers to buy new ones ...good job Apple

 

Sherb

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Fucking brilliant move by Tim Cook. And Apple's stock pushes up today regardless. The small percentage of consumers who give a fuck and have bitch fits about their iPhone being slightly slower are the only ones you are going to hear from. Everyone else who can deal with the planned obsolescence concept is fine with their phone slowing down when they install an updated OS. Apple is a corporation. You holding onto your iPhone 5 for four years isn't contributing to their bottom line.

At least they aren't pushing $6 a month subscriptions tacked onto lifetime software licenses, am I right?

-ThopHayt

 

ThopHayt

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Also Apple is REALLY pushing Apple Pay and upgrading to more cloud storage with this upgrade. They've turned a premier brand into a piece of shit little-by-little.

I know this, I'll never buy another iPhone after hearing this. Looking at the Honor 7x now, by Huawei. I want a phone that isn't going to be sabotaged.

-ThopHayt

 

LuckyCharm007

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ThopHayt said:

Also Apple is REALLY pushing Apple Pay and upgrading to more cloud storage with this upgrade. They've turned a premier brand into a piece of shit little-by-little.

I know this, I'll never buy another iPhone after hearing this. Looking at the Honor 7x now, by Huawei. I want a phone that isn't going to be sabotaged.

-ThopHayt

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Who are you kidding. Your Android phone will sabotage itself within a year. You don’t even need an update for that.

 

JPRock

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Having worked on the Apple Care Support line I can confirm Apple really do not give a flying fuck. Their response to my being Type One Diabetic was "You are letting the team down with your diabetes..."

 

b1step-ahead

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So would changing out the battery on a older Iphone un slow it per-say. Because if it doesn't, Timmy will be facing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations "Rico" for 2018

 

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b1step-ahead said:

So would changing out the battery on a older Iphone un slow it per-say. Because if it doesn't, Timmy will be facing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations "Rico" for 2018

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They're too big to fall into a simple law like that. Their lawyers will argue the phones are unsupported because of new launch, or some other bullshit.

 

ThopHayt

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Once this news gets out enough it won't matter, there will be huge backlash... Apple will either back down or lose market share. Just be sure to FB/RT this news and wait a week or so...

-ThopHayt

 

Cratos

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That's why I never bought their stupid iphones. Only owned one pre-owned iphone in my lifetime. Screw those idiots. I love my s8. Now I understand why people are so glued to their damn smart phones. Buncha sheep.

 

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This is honestly an old topic. I saw it a few months ago. They're not going to change a damned thing.

 

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Reasons why i don't buy ipones

 

aduseia

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My experience working at a 1 of the 3 big telecommunications companies in Canada (Telus), was quite fruitful during the times of iPhone releases. You wouldn't believe the amount of clients coming into the store complaining and asking us reps to reset their phones and "diagnose" other speed issues. We'd convert all the dummies to buy the newest model, because of course, it was "faster".

What was once just a conspiracy theory has now been proven a fact. Going to be interesting to see how they handle the backlash, which I think could be imminent.

The trick is to not update your firmware to the new iOS that's released WITH the latest model. You older iPhone isn't necessary designed to handle that upgrade.

 

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I don't know, i have been using iPhone for years, all have 3 years+ life span. The only reason i change my iPhones are just because i got bored. I still have my iPhone 4s (6 years - my nephew is using), iPhone 6 (3 years+ - my gf is using it) and I am using iPhone 7+.

The trick is don't just update everything, just like Window, the auto update is killing the performance.

 

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This is going to cause a lot of little girly tantrums amongst the iPhone mugs.

 

soa0611

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Peter Ngo said:

The trick is don't just update everything, just like Window, the auto update is killing the performance.

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i do it with my Firefox

 

iki

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I have iphone 6 and it was the best phone which i loved until updated to iOS 11. Now i can say its trash and so far 2-3 more iOS updates nothing help, every single app i have is lagging or when typing text, browsing same thing, also so many other things that i dislike. I dont want to buy samsung again because i had one it sucks too but this with Apple is very bad because their products are expensive..

 

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I've heard about this for months, how are people surprised? It's Apple.

You can't change the phone battery. You can't use a SD card. You need adapters. The glass shatters easily, made on purpose. And people stand in lines for new ones..