Very interesting story and I have a data point to add: I bought my iPhone 6 new in 2014 and as of about two months ago the battery (which was at more than 750 cycles - Apple rates it for about 500) was getting really flakey. The reported capacity of the battery started varying between 45% of its rating and 85% with random power offs becoming common below 10%. So last weekend I finally bit the bullet and put a new battery in - fiddly but doable in about 30 mins. I then reset the phone and left it to fully charge overnight.
Since changing the battery the iPhone has been subjectively faster to launch apps and display information. So this report that Apple may have something in iOS that compensates for a failing battery doesnâ(TM)t seem implausible.
Though I would have thought that a better thing (or perhaps as well as) would be if Apple gave the user an alert once 500 cycles exceeded advising them that the battery was wearing out and linking them to the official Apple page for getting it changed.
Assuming that you have an original iMac from about 10 years ago (released in '98) loaded with Mac OS 8.5.x or 8.6 then you need the USB Mass Storage 1.3.5 update to use a flash drive. Download it, burn it to a CD (that version of the Mac OS can read PC CDs no problem) and install it and you will be away with a flash drive. You can get it here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60394
Only problem might be if the CD drive has died which is reasonably likely after this length of time. It is a standard IDE laptop drive and so pretty easy to replace with a screwdriver and a few minutes.
Yes, the machine is now effectively junk (like pretty much all 10 year old computers), but the 'i' stands for Internet and hence why there was no floppy drive. With flash drives these days I certainly don't miss them. At the time phasing them out was daring, but long term it was the right call.
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Very interesting story and I have a data point to add: I bought my iPhone 6 new in 2014 and as of about two months ago the battery (which was at more than 750 cycles - Apple rates it for about 500) was getting really flakey. The reported capacity of the battery started varying between 45% of its rating and 85% with random power offs becoming common below 10%. So last weekend I finally bit the bullet and put a new battery in - fiddly but doable in about 30 mins. I then reset the phone and left it to fully charge overnight.
Since changing the battery the iPhone has been subjectively faster to launch apps and display information. So this report that Apple may have something in iOS that compensates for a failing battery doesnâ(TM)t seem implausible.
Though I would have thought that a better thing (or perhaps as well as) would be if Apple gave the user an alert once 500 cycles exceeded advising them that the battery was wearing out and linking them to the official Apple page for getting it changed.
Cheers, Chris W.
Hmm... shouldn't feed the trolls, but whatever...
Assuming that you have an original iMac from about 10 years ago (released in '98) loaded with Mac OS 8.5.x or 8.6 then you need the USB Mass Storage 1.3.5 update to use a flash drive. Download it, burn it to a CD (that version of the Mac OS can read PC CDs no problem) and install it and you will be away with a flash drive. You can get it here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60394
Only problem might be if the CD drive has died which is reasonably likely after this length of time. It is a standard IDE laptop drive and so pretty easy to replace with a screwdriver and a few minutes.
Yes, the machine is now effectively junk (like pretty much all 10 year old computers), but the 'i' stands for Internet and hence why there was no floppy drive. With flash drives these days I certainly don't miss them. At the time phasing them out was daring, but long term it was the right call.
Cheers, Chris W.