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> Wasn’t Apple the one actually caught throttling devices with an update to slow phones down under the guise of "saving battery

It wasn’t guise, it actually increased the battery life quite much. People complained about the battery of old phones. The problem was that users did not have choice to opt-out.

>>nicce+(OP)
There was the opt-out part, but also the complete silence around the issue that comforted people into thinking they needed new phones every 2 years instead of just replacing the battery.

Apple wouldn't have had to do all the song and dance if from the start a popup warned the users their battery lost capacity and should be serviced.

>>makeit+O5
Yeah, the feature itself wasn't bad, it was the implementation that was.