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« on: February 10, 2020, 04:05:19 pm »

Apple is right to slow down older iPhones, here's why

Believe me, the alternative is much worse...

Yesterday, February 7, Apple got slapped with a 25 million euro ($27 million) fine by France's Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF).

In what is tantamount to a corporate smack on the wrist (Apple probably spends more than $27 million a year on toilet paper), French authorities concluded the following:


  The DGCCRF has indeed shown that iPhone owners had not been informed that the updates of the iOS operating system (10.2.1 and 11.2) they installed were likely to slow down the operation of their device.


If you didn't know already, Apple slows down older iPhones. Intentionally. Back in the day, this was quite a big deal, so hopefully, it isn't news to you. But just in case, now you now.

This story was all the rage a couple of years back. Around the end of 2017, suspicions began to emerge that Apple was intentionally, and worse, secretly, slowing down iPhones with a performance management ...

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