Comment on Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlements

dsmk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

We should bear in mind that the level of slow downs were worse on some devices than on others.

I don’t know if it was the different SoCs or just different levels of throttling for different levels of battery wear, but my phone got really slow. There was no information about what was going on, no way to disable the slow down, and Apple support back then would tell you to just get a new phone (which they did to me).

While the idea behind the slow downs is solid and I’ve done it myself on old laptops with bad batteries, doing it behind the scenes without informing anyone and then making money by selling new devices is not something that should be praised. Apple probably made more money than what they’ll have to pay with this settlement, but still… better something than nothing.

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