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Apple Will Soon Let Users Turn Off its iPhone-slowing Software (cnet.com)
Following an uproar from customers last month, Apple on Wednesday said it's adding a feature to its latest iOS update that will let customers turn off software that slows down their iPhones. From a report: Apple in December revealed that it released software a year earlier that makes your phone run more slowly to prevent problems with its aging lithium ion battery, such as unexpected shutdowns. As part of the new iOS 11.3 update, iPhone users will get a recommendation if a battery needs to be serviced. Plus, they will be able to see if the power management feature that slows the phone's performance is on and can choose to turn it off, the company said Wednesday.
Just wait. People will turn it off, and then be right back to bitching when the phone suddenly dumps because the battery is dead.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The silly thing is that if they'd actually done this the day they implemented the throttling (thereby being upfront and honest about it) then there probably wouldn't have been any uproar.
Yet again, it's Apple's reluctance to share anything but the bare minimum with their customers (who then go on to make assumptions about their motives) which has bitten them on the backside.
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Apple is rudderless on leadership. Normally that's been a "bad thing" for Apple and their pursuit of innovation since Job's died. But this time, it might scare them enough to re-design the next iPhone to be user battery serviceable friendly. I'm not saying they will, but given the public outcry from this, I'd say the odds have improved greatly of that being a possibility. Time will tell.
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