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.
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.