this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
101 points (96.3% liked)
Technology
58061 readers
31 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.