Skip to main content

Apple Was Totally Right To Slow Down Your Phone

Image result for iphone 6
So Apple found itself in the midst of another controversy a few weeks back ( Big Surprise right!?). This time people were fuming at the fact that apple slowed down older devices to prolong their lifespans (or to implement planned obsolescence as per the conspiracy theorists). With me being the Apple Sheep I feel like I need to defend Apple on this topic, Just to reiterate I think that Apple did  the right thing.

Physics 101: Batteries Die

Image result for iphone battery
Now this is point that we all know, Not battery stays the same over the course of a phones life span all batteries decay over time. Android phones feel the effect of battery decay too. A survey I conducted found that  73% of people who used the same phone for more than 3 years noticed a significant drop in battery life. So no matter who makes the phone it's a given that your battery is going to decay provided you use it over the course of a few years. We expect all our tech to wear out over time so why are we surprised that the lithium ion batteries in our iPhones wore out? It was at this time that many other manufacturers came forward with statements saying that they didn't resort to CPU throttling, but the flip side of that is that those phones randomly shut down as their batteries couldn't provide the necessary voltage. So no one is immune from your battery eventually dying.

"Apple Did It To Make Us Buy More iPhones"

This argument in my opinion makes no sense. Apple passed up a golden opportunity to get people to upgrade to a newer iPhone by throttling their older phones. This opportunity was given to them on a silver platter.
Think about it when are you more likely to buy a new phone?
Scenario A: When your 3 year old phone starts to slow down a bit but is fully usable as a phone.
Scenario B: When your 3 year old phone starts to randomly shut down and becomes a $600 paper weight.
I'll let you decide. Going back to that survey I did, they survey found that 56% of people thought that bad battery backup was a good enough reason to upgrade to a newer phone. So, all Apple had to do was do nothing. No one is going to sue Apple cause the laws of physics start to kill your battery. But instead Apple Slowed down your phone so that you could still call, text,answer emails and do everything you needed it to. This slowdown was so minuscule that it took benchmarks to prove it, meaning that its effect were hard to notice in daily use and was only felt when the phone was being pushed to its limit (like when its being benchmarked). I feel like a slight slowdown is a good tradeoff when you get a few more years out of your iPhone. Another reason I feel that this argument is B.S is cause replacing the battery solves the issue.If Apple really wanted you to buy a new phone your phone would be slow no matter what.
I truly believe Apple was trying to do the right thing. You can read Apple's apology explaining why they did what they did.

"Apple Should Have Been More Open About This"

Apple is a company and they need to turn a profit. It is unrealistic of you to expect a company to market their flaws. Thats like expecting Google to tell you that The XL2 screens might suck or for One Plus to admit that the Chinese government has unlimited access to their data. Any company will always try to hide their product's fault, they always highlight the positives. All companies are guilty of this.

So these are my thoughts. Do you think I'm right or is Apple still the bad guy here?


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

What Is KaiOS? The Android Competitor You've Never Heard Of

When you think of the smartphone OS wars, we have two warring factions, Android and iOS. For about 5 years this was the way it's been. But in the distant past there were three smartphone Operating Systems. Android, iOS and Windows. The three way battle for OS supremacy raged on and before long the triopoly became a duopoly. With Windows phone being more or less dead the two major Operating systems only had each other to worry about for the longest time. Now the incumbents have a new kid on the block to worry about , KaiOS. But wait if KaiOS is so great how come no ones ever heard of it before? But First Some Background KaiOS is built on the ashes of the Firefox OS , For phones that aren't necessarily smart. You remember those old phones that you used to rock back in 2009? Yeah phones like those. The aim of KaiOS is to bring down the features of a smartphone down to a feature phone. So for that very same reason Kai...

iPhone XR: The Display Is Fine!

Its September and like every year like clockwork Apple has come out with new iPhones and would it be an iPhone launch without some controversy. The iPhone X had the notch and the iPhone 7 didn't have a headphone jack . In true Apple fashion this year's iPhones have stirred up controversy, Well one of them. Apple released the iPhone XS , the XS Max and the iPhone XR. With the two S models being the premium pricey phones that we've come to expect. The real wild card was the iPhone XR but in my personal opinion it is the best possible phone that we could have expected. Why I'm Okay With The Display Most in the tech industry upon knowing about the pixel density of the iPhone XR instantly compared it to the iPhone 4 from 2010. Yes on paper they both have the exact same specs. But paper rarely tells the whole story. While the pixels per inch have stayed the same the underlying ...

When Will Apple Remove The Charging Port?

               Apple's all about that wireless technology and its no secret that Apple eventually wants a port-less iPhone. With the death of the headphone jack , Apple has obviously trained its guns on the lightning port. Surely even Apple isn't courageous enough to remove something as basic as the charging port. Right? If this is the first time you've heard about this you might be feeling a sense of dread. Don't worry thats normal. Yes all those memes that said that the next iPhone might not have a charging port were true. The lightning port's days are numbered. Why This Obsession With Wireless? Apple believes that wireless is the future ( And it is ) and all their design choices and decisions as a company over the past few years have been to wean us off cables and physical media. Starting with the removal of the CD drive, then with the headphone jack, then with very few ports on the MacBook. Yeah Apple has been hinting at us to switch ...