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Title: Cook says 'people weren't paying attention' but vows to let users turn off iPhone throttling Post by: HCK on January 21, 2018, 04:05:12 pm Cook says 'people weren't paying attention' but vows to let users turn off iPhone throttling
<article> <section class="page"> <p>In an interview with <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/apple-make-350b-contribution-us-economy-years/story?id=52405662" rel="nofollow">ABC News[/url] to tout Apple’s new jobs strategy, second U.S. campus, and repatriation of some $250 billion in overseas cash, Tim Cook also spoke for the first time about the iPhone battery issue, offering an apology, a little blame, and an upcoming fix.</p><p>Apple has already come clean (https://www.macworld.com/article/3245168/consumer-electronics/iphone-29-battery-replacement-faq.html) on its practice of slowing down older iPhones to prevent against unnecessary shutdowns, but Cook put a slightly different spin on things, saying “a lot of people weren’t paying attention” when Apple originally released the iOS 10.2.1 update that started throttling chip speeds. At the time, this is what Apple had to say in a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/apple-says-ios-10-2-1-has-reduced-unexpected-iphone-6s-shutdown-issues-by-80/" rel="nofollow">statement provided to TechCrunch[/url]:</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3249094/apple-phone/cook-iphone-battery-throttling-fix.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Cook says 'people weren't paying attention' but vows to let users turn off iPhone throttling (https://www.macworld.com/article/3249094/apple-phone/cook-iphone-battery-throttling-fix.html#tk.rss_all) |