Apple slowing down devices to extend battery life when the battery itself is low or degraded is awesome.
All the lawsuits coming out of this over recent years are uncalled for. Users that “suffer” from this likely need to simply replace the battery.
I expect an OS (and/or kernel) to manage resources. iOS/macOS actively doing so by adjusting its behavior when the battery’s shot is exactly the kind of magic people want in Apple products—so why is the opposite true when it comes to to this subject?
It’s wild to me that someone would be so upset as to sue over this.
Edit: I’m not arguing that Apple is superior or that everyone should happily go along with buying Apple products. The way a lot of these comments are written make it sound like they’re the only smartphone manufacturer and living with their software is forced upon you. If Apple makes you angry or unhappy, I happily encourage you to seek alternatives; I don’t believe any one company can make the perfect product for 100% of people.
Isn’t (part of) the problem that Apple didn’t tell customers they were doing this?
Maybe so, but I don’t expect any OS vendor to tell me every tiny of detail of how they manage their hardware/performance (especially on consumer devices known for simplicity).
Feel free to disagree, but I don’t think your operating system vendor artificially reducing performance is a tiny detail.
Artificially reducing performance? You make it sound like it happens all the time without reason. That’s not the case.
Performance is only reduced when the battery is critically low or when it’s degraded to the point it should be replaced anyway.
There’s a trade off for sure, but calling it artificially reduced performance isn’t fair.
If the throttling makes the device unusable, and it’s because the battery degraded to the point it couldn’t power the processor in a year or two, then they need to throw out a mea culpa at the least. Ideally they’d replace the faulty batteries.
Agreed. If the batteries were faulty to begin with (as I’ve seen mentioned in the comments here) then I’d argue Apple is at fault.
As far as the batteries simply being worn out I know that macOS has shown the battery health for some time, on iOS I don’t recall if that was available pre-lawsuit. If that information wasn’t readily available to the user then yes, Apple would be at fault here as well.