They didn’t lower the performance of the device. They improved the performance for the devices affected. Without lowering the peak clocks the system thought it could handle, the device didn’t do better. It hard crashed and shut the system off, presumably losing portions of whatever it was doing in the process.
I personally would prefer Apple (and everyone else) make slightly more detailed update descriptions available on a separate channel, but the main update notes should be just broad strokes IMO. Regardless, yes, the notification they eventually added was a good idea that added value. I just don’t think portraying it as anything other than “something that didn’t occur to them, because literally no one else did anything like it either” is responsible at all.
People still reference this nonsense and the suits that should have the attorneys involved disciplined for frivolous time wasting as “Apple is trying to force you to buy new phones” when their old devices consistently maintain their resale value far better than the rest of the field and the very obvious intent of this specific action was strictly beneficial to their customers. It would have been slightly more beneficial to do the “your battery doesn’t work” message sooner, but you’d have ended up with just as much manufactured outrage if they were slightly too inclusive in who got that message.
The message was added later.
They didn’t lower the performance of the device. They improved the performance for the devices affected. Without lowering the peak clocks the system thought it could handle, the device didn’t do better. It hard crashed and shut the system off, presumably losing portions of whatever it was doing in the process.
I personally would prefer Apple (and everyone else) make slightly more detailed update descriptions available on a separate channel, but the main update notes should be just broad strokes IMO. Regardless, yes, the notification they eventually added was a good idea that added value. I just don’t think portraying it as anything other than “something that didn’t occur to them, because literally no one else did anything like it either” is responsible at all.
People still reference this nonsense and the suits that should have the attorneys involved disciplined for frivolous time wasting as “Apple is trying to force you to buy new phones” when their old devices consistently maintain their resale value far better than the rest of the field and the very obvious intent of this specific action was strictly beneficial to their customers. It would have been slightly more beneficial to do the “your battery doesn’t work” message sooner, but you’d have ended up with just as much manufactured outrage if they were slightly too inclusive in who got that message.
I’ve been saying this ever since I made that post on Reddit. The fix is not the problem, the lack of communication is.
Still salty that the news interviews cut that part of my statement out, tbh, but I was young and naive enough to be surprised at the time