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First comment on that story (as of right now) blames the media for not being able to report the issue correctly and then goes on to describe what he fails to recognize as a serious design flaw.
It's all the comments. I don't know what else to expect from the forum of macrumors.com.
I think they don't understand or don't want to understand the real issue. The problem is not that batteries degrade and Apple throttles the phone to protect electronics. The problem is that batteries are designed to degrade, are not replaceable, and Apple profits from this by having you buy new phones.
Shameless plug of Fairphone here. I am not buying any headphones that are not from them any more. The sound is great, at least for me (I am no connoisseur), the whole thing works OK. But when one of the straps broke, I didn't have to buy a new thing, I just needed to unscrew two screws, pull out and USB-C cable and put the new thing I bought for 10 bucks in.
Well it is a complicated situation that the media (predictably) reports poorly. Although it's very possible, and even likely, they contacted Apple regarding the issue and received no reply.
On the one hand, Apple did remotely throttle the CPU power on older devices.
On the other hand, they supposedly did so in an effort to preserve battery life.
So what appeared on the surface (and may have been, I dunno, I'm not an electrical engineer) to be Apple just throttling older devices in an effort of planned obsolescence, could be seen as the opposite.
The problem is that they didn't disclose this anywhere or give owners the option to opt out of it.
As an Apple hater, I'm inclined to suspect the planned obsolescence but I'm not going to judge them for this specifically, because I simply don't know, and there more than enough other, less controversial reasons to hate Apple.