Apple outed for intentionally slowing phones

Apple has had their fingers in this LONG before this new slowing down issue. Which btw should prove to everyone just how much control they have over your phone.

I had one of the very first iphones. The 'minute' they came out with the next iPhone version all my apps quite working saying I HAD to buy the new phone. Try and download new apps? Same thing. You have to upgrade to new version phone to download new apps. Cancelled that phone and have never looked back. What a scam that was never exposed.

That's why so many apps are for free. Apple pays them and controls them. They come out with new phone and apps are instructed to stop working properly until you buy one of their new phones. And all your apps eat your data 24 7's. Now who do you think is benefiting from that? Cause now you have to keep increasing your data plan.

I still can't wrap my head around anyone buying each and every new iphone as they come out for hundreds of dollars. Can't believe that Apple has brainwashed so many people. :(

Ductape wrote:
I'm done with Apple whenever the current phone dies (or slows apparently). Too much Nanny state "we know what's best" without informing the customer, or in other cases denying us an option to choose.
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But Apple has always been that way. That's one of the reasons I never desired an Apple computer. They frown on any user messing with the workings of their stuff.

Ductape wrote:
I'm done with Apple whenever the current phone dies (or slows apparently). Too much Nanny state "we know what's best" without informing the customer, or in other cases allowing us an option to choose.

updates will not download on cellular connections if they're above a certain size.

My next phone I'm going back to Android.

Wish in one hand and poop in the other........ya know how that goes?

Usually Android will not do a large OS update over cellular either. That's usually a limitation imposed by your cellular provider, and not an OS feature to my knowledge. The cellular provider has a lot of input into the upgrades which is why when Android comes out with an update (an actual OS update and not just a security update), Verizon customers may have it long before AT&T, or vice versa.

I'm done with Apple whenever the current phone dies (or slows apparently). Too much Nanny state "we know what's best" without informing the customer, or in other cases denying us an option to choose.

Another example is that updates or apps will not download on cellular connections if they're above a certain size. No opportunity to choose to override that and proceed. So my unlimited data plan is crippled with an iPhone; I end up wasting an hour trying to find an open wifi in an unfamiliar town with enough bandwidth to get an update. Thanks so much Apple for protecting me by forcing me to a public wifi. :R

My next phone I'm going back to Android.

shastagary wrote:
i am running ios 10.3.3 on a iphone 6 and have not noticed a slowdown of anything on it still works great. but i will not update to ios 11 that i bet would slow it down as it is designed to run on a faster processor and features of a new phone.

Your exactly right here. I think it was included in the ios 11 update. It's interesting that Samsung makes 1/3 of all the parts in an Iphone, including screen and battery. Performance takes a hit when batteries get old without any "help". In the US ,Android accounted for 67% of phone activation's from April-June 2017, up from 63% in the same quarter last year. IOS activation's dropped from 32% to 31% in that same period. When you look at what their doing, combined with
a stratospheric price for an Top line Iphone 10, it looks like their trying to goose the market at one end with the slowing, while they rake it in the other end with wealthy customers.

i am running ios 10.3.3 on a iphone 6 and have not noticed a slowdown of anything on it still works great. but i will not update to ios 11 that i bet would slow it down as it is designed to run on a faster processor and features of a new phone.

True enough, @T18. At the same time, Samsung has been having flaming battery problems. Perhaps Apple did that in order to avoid such issues. Apple did say that the software will stop slowing the phones if the battery is replaced with a new one.

The trouble here, of course, is that nobody but Apple knows all the details. While it might have been a good idea for them to disclose all, they have not done so, which opens the door to all sorts of conspiracy theories.

Good point, Kevin. Disclosure might have increased new phone sales without the black eye.

Reasons might make sense - lack of disclosure is disappointing.