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On one hand, slowing a phone down is clearly shit. But equally, shit battery life is also shit. It seems that they’re trying to find a compromise between battery and performance as batteries get older. My 6 needs charging twice on any day I use it frequently, and it’s also really slow lately, but I’m not sure I’d want more speed for even worse battery life.
im not trying to defend apple at all on this, I’m just genuinely unsure how they could deal with it and keep everyone happy.
What I do know is that I do t care if my next phone is 20 microns thinner than my current one. I’d much rather it gained a mm or two and filled all of that space with more battery...
The cynic in me says that this is nothing to do with batteries and more to do with selling phones. Do they do this with their computers too?
I like Apple products - but £1000 handsets and tricks like this are just taking their customers pants down....
"Allow iOS to manage phone performance to optimise battery life"
Every laptop I've ever had let me adjust the power vs performance profile.
I am no fan of Apple (or Google to be honest), so it is easy to think the worst in this case. The fact that Apple didn't say anything about this doesn't look good, at all. It is hard to believe that even Apple could do something this dumb maliciously though. Still, with Google fucking over Amazon Firestick users, they no better.
This is the fundamental issue.
They are so caught up in the aesthetic aspects of the design that they don't actually think about the functionality. Because the battery life on them is so poor, it exacerbates the problem. There is only a finite number of charge cycles in the battery. A phone with poor battery life gets there sooner as you have to recharge it more often.
For me, battery life is pretty much my number one criteria when buying a phone. When mine was new I could get close to 3 days out of it with my usage levels. It's now 3 years old, and still ok because it's probably only have half the number of charges that a 3 year old iPhone would have had.
The problem with Apple is that they think they know better than the user does how their devices should operate. It's not at all unique to this problem, there are probably hundreds of examples of stuff Apple has changed without allowing the user to choose.
Just one minor, trivial example - in the recent versions of iTunes on the Mac you can no longer set the album artwork to be the full height of the screen, which you could before. Why not?! There seems to be no reason for this change other than 'because Apple knows best'. But I liked having the artwork the full size...
I like Apple kit, and I'm not going to stop using it, but this sort of thing does grate. It does indeed 'just work' - when you use it how they want you to. Try something different and you can be in for a lot of frustration.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"We got another set of customer survey results back. They keep saying they just want longer battery life"
"So we need to work harder on convincing then that that's not the priority?"
"Exactly"
I read that older phones were shutting down when the battery was still showing about 40% as they couldn't supply the required current. They initially implemented this because of complaints about that. Whatever the cause, it's not good.
Shame of it is the phones generally affected by the slowdown are the easiest phones to change the battery in and the battery cost a tenner !
Same with their laptops - the battery effects power management so, as the battery degrades over the time, the computer will get slower unless you replace the battery to bring it back to what it once was.
It's getting replaced in the new year but I really do feel I've had my money's worth out of it. The iPhone, on the other hand, seems to be getting a bit... cheeky with the pricing.
FWIW, my iPhone5 has done the same.... slowed down to a crawl and it *was* doing the crash at 22% battery power. There was another update (after a barrage of complaints from users) that miraculously stopped this. I'm 99% certain that this is a cynical attempt to get me to 'upgrade' - yet I don't *want* another phone, I like(d) this one. It was much faster, it worked well and it hasn't been abused. Therefore the only change has been Apple's "updates"...
But for the record, I'd rather roger myself with barbed wire than have anything with a Samsung (Smugsam) badge. Dogshit company to deal with.
My MacBook pro can't be updated as Apple has stated that it won't work with High Sierra... however, it should work with Mountain Lion etc... but I can't update to that as that software isn't available. Now I can't listen to Mp3s or Wavs on it because its bitching that iTunes is out of date, but I can't update that because the OS isn't currrent. I can't update the browser because of the OS so certain websites are impossible to use. Round and round we go...
Its not on, really.
The question is, how’s it possible to buy a 40”, 4K smart tv for less than £400, yet an iPhone costs double? Doesn’t make any sense at all....
Not a fanboy by any means, with every contract upgrade I look at other devices and would happily switch if there would be anything better. Thing is - there just doesn't seem to be any.
I wasn't aware that iPhones and iPads suffer with those issues. Fairly certain that I won't be interested in getting any of the Apple devices for quite some time.