Sentences with phrase «iphones slower every year»

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Apple ended up confirming that it began slowing down old phones last year, but says it did it for an altruistic reason: not to make older iPhones slower, but to help prevent them from suddenly turning off.

Earlier this year, it was sued for deliberately making iPhones slower.

Looking back at the introduction of the iPods, iPhones and iPads, the first year's sales tend to be a bit slow, with adoption rate striking up tremendously in years to follow.

«For years, we've reassured people that no, Apple doesn't secretly slow down their older iPhones to make them buy new ones,» the blogger and iPhone developer Marco Arment said in a tweet Wednesday.

And, with data that proved older iPhones were getting slower as they aged, and with conspiracy theories stating as much for years, the perfect storm caught on just before the end of 2017.

The problems with the iPad pro and pencil for me are that firstly the pencil will be rendered useless by updates - in three year's time the built - in obsolescence lag you get on all iPhones / pads will make it far from practical compared to the usual slow reactions of swipes and presses you get on the other devices.

Apple launched a $ 29 battery replacement program late last year, following revelations that the company slows down older iPhones.

I've been saying it for years that Apple intentionally slows down the older iphones every time when a new IOS comes out.

Late last year, Apple confirmed that iPhones with older batteries were being intentionally slowed down as the devices» batteries aged in order to prevent further performance issues.

Planned obsolescence in an Apple product isn't a new suggestion, but Apple's confirmation that it slows down older iPhones (in a feature that was introduced last year, and is present on devices as recent as the iPhone 7) has raised a lot of concerns.

Interestingly enough, Cook says that its initial effort to stop random shutdowns of older iPhones did the job it was meant to, but it was not clear at the time (the feature was launched last year) that it would make some older iPhones slow down.

Using the bundled chargers, this year's iPhones sink to the bottom, with the iPhone x charging the slowest.

For years, we've reassured people that no, Apple doesn't secretly slow down their older iPhones to make them buy new ones.

Well, the biggest conspiracy theory floating around from years that Apple deliberately slows down performance on your older iPhones whenever the company is about to launch the next version of its flagship to push its sale is T...

The company says that, starting last year, it started slowing down older iPhones with lower - capacity batteries, mainly to prevent accidental shutdowns.