Apple slows your iPhone down "to conserve battery"

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Apple is surrounded by hysterical news reporting. Doing the logical thing would end in disaster for the company.
 
Tunney said:
Apple is surrounded by hysterical news reporting. Doing the logical thing would end in disaster for the company.
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What the obvious thing of offering people the choice on how their device performs? Everyone knows he battery degrades on their devices over time, you just end up having to charge them up more. The honest option would be to have a battery saver mode which throttles performance so the owner could have a say so they can choose to either have a slower operating device and longer battery power or the same fast operating device with ever shorter battery life.
 
Tunney said:
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Doing the logical thing and making the battery user replacable (at the expense of making the phone half a mill thicker) would actually be a selling point for some.

I'm fairly sure most people would prefer their phone remain the same thickness for a couple of generations of device and gain an hour of extra battery life, or be able to replace it than this utterly stupid race to make the slimmest phone possible at the expense of usable life.
 
Big businesses like Apple are all about making money and very little to do with what really is best for the consumer.

Its nothing new. Business is business. Calculated strategies for maximising profit is what a lot of people get paid a lot of money to produce.

Apple are masters at it. Selling ice to the Eskimos and all wrapped up in super secret and hard to user-maintain package.
 
Werewolf said:
Doing the logical thing and making the battery user replacable (at the expense of making the phone half a mill thicker) would actually be a selling point for some.

I'm fairly sure most people would prefer their phone remain the same thickness for a couple of generations of device and gain an hour of extra battery life, or be able to replace it than this utterly stupid race to make the slimmest phone possible at the expense of usable life.
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Why do people think that it would be a case of making the phone half a mm thicker to include a removable battery. It wouldn't. None of the big manufacturers flagship phones have removable batteries.

If you care that much about your battery lasting a tiny bit longer get a battery pack. For some reason everyone seems to think that if you gave people an extra hour or two of battery life that would fix everything. It wouldn't. People who sit on their phones all day would still need to charge it. Batteries would still degrade over time.

Apple are damned if they do, damned if they don't but everyone just loves to stick the boot in to them.

The average phone user knows sweet FA about their phone and how it works. Apple are masters at making decisions for users that make the user experience better even if the user wouldn't agree if you asked them. Thats why apple were so good under Jobs. He knew that customers didn't know what they wanted. If they just left it to chew through battery life at full speed people would be complaining that the new OS destroys their battery life and guess what happens when you are charging your phone more often. It degrades quicker. They have chosen to do something to try and make iPhones last longer. This is why there are plenty of people still on a 4s etc.

Apple are the same as most large companies, they are trying to make as much profit as possible but thats how every company works. Apple are better than most. Samsung are an utterly scummy company in pretty much every way but people still buy their phones. Apple are just cool to hate.
 
Makes technical sense.

If you send it in for a battery replacement, it will return to normal speed.
 
fez said:
Apple are damned if they do, damned if they don't but everyone just loves to stick the boot in to them.

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Apple are the same as most large companies, they are trying to make as much profit as possible but thats how every company works. Apple are better than most. Samsung are an utterly scummy company in pretty much every way but people still buy their phones. Apple are just cool to hate.
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I don't know anything about Samsung so I can't comment about them but what you say about Apple is true. It doesn't matter what they do, people will complain about them because it's cool to hate Apple. I'm fairly sure that if Apple were to invent a cure for death that some people would find a way to knock them.
 
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Sounds like a sensible engineering solution. The battery is the weak-point in any modern phone's hardware.
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Sadly that’ll fall by the wayside and Apple will receive an absolute blasting in the media. Some people genuinely seem to expect Apple to be able to defy physics.
 
It makes technical sense, but the way they've handled it is not great.

They should make it clear to the end user what is happening and why so people can make an informed choice in regards to what they do about it.
 
Werewolf said:
It makes technical sense, but the way they've handled it is not great.

They should make it clear to the end user what is happening and why so people can make an informed choice in regards to what they do about it.
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Agreed. But let’s be honest, people would also be complaining bitterly if Apple actively told them that the performance of their device had been dialled down due to a failing battery.
 
Werewolf said:
It makes technical sense, but the way they've handled it is not great.

They should make it clear to the end user what is happening and why so people can make an informed choice in regards to what they do about it.
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Agree entirely. If there were an option in the settings to turn this off or on, it would certainly help. I wonder if that'll be added....
 
mrochester said:
Agreed. But let’s be honest, people would also be complaining bitterly if Apple actively told them that the performance of their device had been dialled down due to a failing battery.
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We're back to the 'damned if they do, damned if they don't' thing again.
 
Feek said:
Agree entirely. If there were an option in the settings to turn this off or on, it would certainly help. I wonder if that'll be added....
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Isn’t the point that the failing battery simply *cannot* supply the power required and hence the clock speed has to be dialled down? It’s like having a PSU that’s slowly failing and unable to power your CPU at max speed anymore.
 
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Isn’t the point that the failing battery simply *cannot* supply the power required and hence the clock speed has to be dialled down? It’s like having a PSU that’s slowly failing and unable to power your CPU at max speed anymore.
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If that is the case, it should be quite easy to test. Plug your phone in on charge and then the phone should work at full speed
 
A worn battery just doesn't hold its charge for as long.

There is absolutely no need to try to fool the customer into thinking he needs a new phone when just a new battery would suffice.

This is just all sorts of wrong. No idea how they get away with it.
 
IvanDobskey said:
A worn battery just doesn't hold its charge for as long.

There is absolutely no need to try to fool the customer into thinking he needs a new phone when just a new battery would suffice.

This is just all sorts of wrong. No idea how they get away with it.
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I’d like to know the physics behind it.
 
mrochester said:
Do phones have a power pass-through like that or do they always operate off the battery?
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I'm guessing they must have because every time I've flattened a phone and plugged it in, it' been able to boot up almost instantly. Admittedly I haven't tried it on an iPhone as I don't own one
 
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