Introduction
Apple’s iPhones have been known for years now for their durability and long life, lasting much longer than almost any other device with a lot of people being reluctant to change, preferring to keep them for years instead.
With that long life, many users noticed that their iPhones would suddenly get unreasonably slower after performing well as soon as they got older. Many users suspected that this was an intentional move from Apple to push them to change their older models for newer ones quicker.
This turned out to be an intentional move on Apple’s behalf which got a lot of backlash, but it was not meant with a bad intention from Apple, or was it?
Battery Gate and how people misunderstood it
We can not mention the iPhone slowing down without mentioning the infamous battery gate of 2017, but it is not the only reason behind this, and it is not even what you think of it.
So, back in 2017, Apple was accused of intentionally slowing down certain models of the iPhone with certain updates to their phones. Now, this sounds bad, but that is not all of it. IPhones are devices with batteries like any other phone, and with time, these batteries get progressively worse and will no longer be capable of handling the heavier tasks and can't handle peak performance the way they used to do.
This might be enough for the iPhone to crash down under heavy load and suddenly shut down which used to happen a lot, especially that IOS gets heavier and more demanding every year.
Now, this puts Apple in a hard situation. They can do one of two things:
1.They can let it be and do nothing about it, but this will be very bad for their reputation and would be a bad move, making devices that last longer but then become unusable.
2.Actually do something about it, and this is what they actually did by providing updates that slow down their devices a bit so that they will consume less power when older and go easy on their batteries consuming power slowly and decreasing the risk of suddenly shutting down or going from 20% to 0% in seconds while using it or doing an important task.
Apple then did update the older models of the iPhones to solve this issue which was not a bad move by itself, but Apple made one big mistake, they did not announce their intentions from the beginning. But think about it, how can they do that. Apple can never explain such a plan and get people to go for it.
Apple would have to explain that they are intentionally are going to slow down all iPhones to save some devices from crashing down, and no matter how much they explained this idea, no one will ever go for it, but still, it had to be done since iPhones crashing would have been a great hit to Apple's iPhone and would affect their long-term sales and their reputation for making durable iPhones.
Conclusions and personal thoughts
It was not at all a bad move on Apple’s behalf and actually did decreased the chance of Apple’s iPhones suddenly stopping and decreased the risk of harm to their batteries and their deterioration.
But the whole idea is, did Apple actually do it all with good intentions and had no harm in mind, or did Apple simply know that they can move more people quicker to the newer models, knowing that they could simply explain it this way if it ever came out.
We can never know what the full reason behind this was since it was a while ago, and Apple was always so secretive, but let us hope that it was made with the convenience of the customer in mind even Apple was eventually fined for this action.
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