It doesn’t get progressively slower over time, it’s either in degraded mode or it isn’t.
If you want to use a car analogy, it’s comparable to limp mode. When your car detects an engine problem it goes into limp mode in which you don’t have full performance but you can at least get home. You’d rather have your car not do this and risk damaging the engine, or would you prefer it to simply stop working and leave you stranded?
Batteries wear out, it’s an unfortunate property of our current battery tech. You can either let your phone get unstable (risking data loss), have it refuse to work at all, or let its run in reduced performance mode so it at least stays usable. Those are your options. Pick one.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Look, I get you hate apple and desperately want to find fault with everything they do. I agree they are a bunch of greedy bastards that try to squeeze as much money out if their customers as they can, but this just isn’t one of the ways they do it.
This slow-down only triggers after the device already had a brown-out. That is: it has to at least crash once due to a worn out battery.
“The brakes on my car worked fine for years and now they suddenly don’t work anymore”. Batteries are a consumable. They wear out. Phones were crashing due to it. They pushed an update that ensured the devices remained usable instead of crashing under load.
Could they have communicated it better? Yes. Was it the right solution from a technical point of view? Also yes.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 months ago
Until you invent a better battery tech that’s those are the only options we have. Let me know when you filed your patent.