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movedx|5 years ago

But they did, though? I got an email telling me my battery was part of a replacement program before this throttling "scandal" broke. I had it replaced for free in Vienna (phone was bought in Australia) in 45 minutes. I had noticed the throttling taking place but it wasn't until the email that I knew about the fault.

mthoms|5 years ago

You were likely part of a very specific recall.

It's been established (and admitted to by Apple themselves) that the throttling was not properly explained to consumers.

acdha|5 years ago

More accurately, Apple didn’t have a UI notification. This was not a secret and support people recommended it if you actually contacted them.

mthoms|5 years ago

>This was not a secret and support people recommended it if you actually contacted them.

False. The retail and support staff were not informed of the throttling. See my other comment.

movedx|5 years ago

But they did, though? I got an email telling me my battery was part of a replacement program before this throttling "scandal" broke. I had it replaced for free in Vienna (phone was bought in Australia) in 45 minutes. I had noticed the throttling taking place but it wasn't until the email that I knew about the fault.

addison-lee|5 years ago

It's almost as if you get ideas to improve products as time goes on. No, that can't be it.

mthoms|5 years ago

So they wrote code to deal with degrading battery health while at the same time didn't know about degrading battery health?

schadara|5 years ago

Not sure how neglecting to inform users of throttling is some kind of improvement.

They have an article about hardware microphone disconnects, prolonging battery life, etc. yet they neglected to write an article about hardware throttling.

It's almost as if they had a hardware problem and instead of issuing a recall, they quietly pushed a software fix. No, that can't be it.

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