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.

  • railsdev@programming.devOP
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    8 months ago
    1. Apple should have been transparent about the changes

    I can neither agree nor disagree. The change didn’t bother me in the slightest so I can’t really speak to that.

    1. Apple (and frankly all smartphone manufacturers imo) should make it easy to simply replace the battery, and 3. making it easy shouldn’t mean bringing it to their store or sending it in for a replacement.

    Again, this doesn’t bother me. At most you’re losing 2-3 days of device use by sending it in for repair and receiving it back. I’ve done that before. I’ve also done it in-store and it took like an hour.

    If this is important to you, buy a phone with a removable battery. None of this bothers me personally.

    It just seems so petty that you’re buying a phone without a removable battery and then crying about how hard it is to replace it. What more do you want? What do they need to do, drive to your house and immediately hand you a brand new replacement?

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      None of this bothers me personally.

      So the only part of any of this that does bother you is seeing people’s complaints about something that doesn’t personally bother you, if I’m following you correctly? Then why/how is it you’ve been coming across these complaints and why are you letting them bother you when it seems like nothing else about the situation is bothering you?

      I don’t really follow why, in a situation where you’re seemingly by and large unaffected to the point that you really shouldn’t have any complaints, you’re complaining about those that were affected complaining about…Y’know, being affected.