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Other than blue bubbles, why do you use iPhone? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Yes, I'm the one in the group DM that turns the bubbles green, I'm sorry.

But other than that, I don't hear many other reasons why people actually prefer iPhones over Androids. What other reasons are there?

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

This keeps getting repeated and it gets further from the truth every time. Apple was throttling phones whose batteries were so bad the phone would shut off when trying to draw peak power. They should have had a message saying, “Replace your Fuckin battery dude”, rather than just throttling the phones, and that’s exactly what the lawsuit made them do. It’s not the case that apple went, “oh this phone is old, slow it down.” At all.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What’s more, they then gave discounted battery replacements to phones of the most-effected generations. As in, for like $50 or something the phone went back to working essentially like new (and had better battery life again to boot).

    If their goal with the battery health throttling was to make money by forcing people to buy new phones, they sure went about it in a weird way. 😆

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    They only offered that cheap battery replacement after the lawsuit was filed.

    Thats not an act of kindness, thats ass covering. They then settled the class action about the secret throttling for $300+ millon.

    Not exactly just an "opps, we forget to mention what we were doing for your phones health for years, really guys" situation. In every possible way, they were silently hobbling the performance of old phones, which directly helped their sales of new phones.

    The right thing to do was very simple : alert people and offer inexpensive replacements. We know it was very simple because they did it immediately when their duplicity was revealed in a court of law. Now ask youself why they didnt do it for years.

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