It's the lie that counts. From Sam Harris' book "Lying" (I've read it 4-5 years ago so I won't try to quote it), the most important thing that I kept is "not telling the whole truth is also lying". This is what Apple did.
And when the lie helps to boost sales then the presumption of innocence goes bye-bye.
This is what did it for me with Apple. I'm in the EU so most like won't get a penny from them, but it's ok, they will never get a penny from me ever again (AFAIK)
I'm always fascinated how posts like yours are downvoted - it's kind of incredible how many people outright defend liars (and lying corporations!) and attack people calling out lies.
It seems like in modern US, lying it so normal and accepted that anger is always directed at people calling it out.
There are multiple definitions of lying. Some people would use the stricter form of 'making a knowingly false statement', and those people are likely to confidently denied they lied when they were accused lying, when they think they only not telling the whole truth.
John Mearsheimer's book "Why Leaders Lie" has a great definition on three forms of deception [1]:
* Lying - Making a knowingly false statement to deceive
* Spinning - Emphasis / de-emphasis certain parts of fact to tell a favorable story
* Concealment - Hiding certain facts to deceive
If I detect someone is "lying" (in your broader definition) I would now use the word 'dishonest' instead.
Phone slows down, meanwhile you continue updating apps which are more demanding, and this 'forces' you to upgrade to the newer/faster phone.
I rarely update apps, as I 'freeze' the updates once I get a good-enough version (i.e. Spotify keeps messing things up imho). So with a stable iOS and the same apps, the CPU/RAM should feel the same. If you slow down my CPU, then the experience becomes worse, thus buying the newer phone.
> Phone slows down, meanwhile you continue updating apps which are more demanding, and this 'forces' you to upgrade to the newer/faster phone.
I already addressed this in my first post. What’s more likely to make you think you need to upgrade—your phone shutting off all the time randomly, or just moving a little slower?
These were the technical choices given the degraded batteries in these phones. In my view, Apple made the choice that would be less noticeable to most people.
With that said, if you’re firmly in “planned obsolescence mode” I understand there’s not much I can say here to persuade you otherwise.
> The random shutdowns would make you think the battery needs replacing, meaning you wouldn't need to replace the whole phone.
What would make you leap to that conclusion? That doesn’t follow at all, especially for the average non-technical user.
The shutdowns weren’t situations where the battery was draining to zero faster than it should have. They appeared to the user as random occurrences even with battery left in the tank. This was due to the battery no longer being capable of providing the right power when SoC power draw would peak. That’s why throttling the chip to run slower mitigates the issue.
Apple's choice was not between slowdowns and random shutdowns, but between informing users or keeping them unaware that a battery swap could keep the phone fast.
Also the slowdowns weren't "less noticeable" in some cases, I've seen iPhones that reached a point where processing a single touch input could take up to 5 seconds.
Customers were generally not aware what the fix for the slowdown was. No non-technical person would ever think of swapping the battery because of slower performance, in my experience most people assume that the storage is full or the system is bloated. For a random user the only known guaranteed fix is buying a new phone. So Apple had an incentive to not inform users because of that and they clearly didn't mind.
Repeating myself in new ways isn’t my favorite thing, so here’s what I already said at the start of this conversation:
> Where they failed was in not communicating this and trying to Apple Magic “it just works pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” when they should have been straightforward.
And when the lie helps to boost sales then the presumption of innocence goes bye-bye.
This is what did it for me with Apple. I'm in the EU so most like won't get a penny from them, but it's ok, they will never get a penny from me ever again (AFAIK)