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iPhones slowed down by Apple​🍏

jonsie
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This made interesting reading especially this bit :

Poole says: “This fix will also cause users to think, ‘my phone is slow so I should replace it’ not, ‘my phone is slow so I should replace its battery’.

Apple reduces speed of iPhones as batteries wear out, report suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/19/apple-iphone-reduce-speed-old-batteries?CMP=Share...

So help me out here the more technical amongst you... 

Do these bench test actually mean anything? Is this at all possible or likely?

Or is this just the Guardian selling papers with fake news? 

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@MI5 wrote:
Apple fans don't need a slow phone to get them to upgrade.
All Apple have to do is change the model number every year!

This is true.....and people will still stand and queue..or pre-order...Dance

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That’s 1 thing I don’t get. Why queue? It’s only a phone

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Nooooooo, it's a religion wink
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@MI5 wrote:
Apple fans don't need a slow phone to get them to upgrade.
All Apple have to do is change the model number every year!

So very true but they have behaved in a very underhanded way. I hope it does lose them  those customers who like to keep their phones 2+ years or pass them on to others. Maybe they want to kill off the resale trade, would anyone now buy a 2 year old iPhone?  

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Or it will just increase Apple's sales of replacement batteries and their charges for fitting them.
Did you know that you cannot buy a genuine Apple battery on Amazon, ebay etc.....?
The only way is to pay Apple to fit one.
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