So? What difference does that make? The battery ages to a certain point, eventually the phone shuts down prematurely. The phone then slows itself down to try to hide the battery loss from the user.
The user is aware of NONE of this. The user thinks, "Darn, time for a new phone already."
Except it's not time for a new phone, it's time for a new battery.
The real question is, why is this OK with you? Why do you, as a user, want less insight and control over your devices? Why carry water for a trillion-dollar company without being paid to?
> No, that was not the issue, and "crashing" was never on the table.
That’s the difference it makes. They were preventing “crashes”. Apple want to you have a working phone so that they can sell you services. They extended the lives of out-of-warranty phones with degraded batteries. They are known for having industry leading support periods for their phones and this is no different.
People like my wife didn’t care that her phone was slower. She cared that it worked. She never bothered to change the battery. She just upgraded when she would have anyway.
I noticed today that her iPhone 8 is in a throttled state. She doesn’t care.
Should they have told the user? Sure. Should they have to pay enormous amounts of money for extending the lives of old hardware? No. Especially when the other manufacturers let their phones rot. Literally doing nothing would have made apple better off and driven more sales due to rebooting handsets.
The user is aware of NONE of this. The user thinks, "Darn, time for a new phone already."
Except it's not time for a new phone, it's time for a new battery.
The real question is, why is this OK with you? Why do you, as a user, want less insight and control over your devices? Why carry water for a trillion-dollar company without being paid to?