Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones

Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:04AM from the he-says-she-says dept.

Apple today responded to reports that the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are probing its decision to throttle older iPhones, confirming that the U.S government has asked questions. From a report: Apple said it would never intentionally "degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades." Apple acknowledged in December that it was secretly slowing the speeds of iPhones in an effort to help preserve aging batteries. In response to consumer backlash, the company dropped the price of battery replacements for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus from $79 to $29.

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Re:Except they do and did by Uberbah · 2018-01-31 04:27 · Score: 1, Troll

And yet they were caught doing exactly this. And besides that, Apple has sealed in the battery and made the cost / terms of replacement so onerous that it could have no other expected effect than drive customer upgrades.
Yes, phones randomly turning themselves off would be so much better! Hatorade Distortion Field....