Look how it slowed peoples phones down, a good idea but it should have said so, so what else does it not tell users?
I tried to make humour of the Apple vs Android aspect, but this latest Apple bashing really does need to be laid to rest.
In fact, Apple merely arranged for the devices to adapt as the batteries degraded, allowing older devices to carry on working, albeit with slightly reduced performance. Yet somehow, the Apple Haters managed to turn it into a shock-horror headline, and the mainstream media were suckered into reporting it.
Apple are pretty unique in this day and age, in encouraging several years’ device usage. My own personal iPhone is a 5c, dating from 2014, you still see plenty of them about. Sadly, it only runs iOS 10 owing to 32 bit hardware limitations, but our 64 bit iPad Mini retina from 2013 is still absolutely as good as new, and fully supported with latest iOS 11. We’ve noticed no degradation at all during that period, despite the fact it is now running a much later iOS version than when it was born. The only disappointment was the iPad 2, which never coped well post iOS 8, though that seems to just have been a ‘bloat’ problem, it has never been suggested that Apple deliberately slugged it. Even though a bit laggy, my own iPad 2 still remained in daily use as my ‘go to’ web device, six years after it was launched.
By all means let’s exchange humourous banter over Apple vs Android, but keep it friendly? That was my only real intent, whilst drawing attention to the undeniable fact that Google and Apple have different approaches to snooping and privacy.