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It is literally reported in the media that Apple was doing this. These commenters take issue with ascribing the problem specifically to capitalism. They believe that, yes, capitalism causes enshittification. But they may also believe that it is not unique in this, or that even if it is unique in this, it is also unique in encouraging the innovation that brought about smartphones.
It's silly, but it's what they believe.
It’s reported that people believe Apple did things, never with any actual, you know, proof.
The biggest problems either performance with old phones is that folks don’t understand how batteries degrade over time and attribute that to some sort of malice from companies like Apple.
I’m all for complaining about the dangers of unfettered capitalism, but stupid Apple conspiracy theories make yall look silly.
Pretty sure in this case Apple straight up admitted it, that's pretty damning proof
Admitted to intentionally causing batteries to drain faster?
I’m sure you have a link to an official Apple statement that proves the claim.
My memory failed me, it was actually intentionally making your phone slower and less performant in phones of the previous generations: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101575
But the result is the same. Upgrade or we'll make your phone awful to use. In that statement, they are really trying to make it sound like it's a good thing for the user, but up until they started doing that, batteries not "supplying enough peak power" was never an issue, and isn't an issue on any android phone. I had friends with iPhones that were 5 years old that worked perfectly fine before the update, that basically became unusable after the software update.