XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-09-12 10:54, badgolferman wrote:   
   > Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2023-09-12 08:20, candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >>> On 9/12/23 09:51, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> And haven't you insisted for years that Apple DIDN'T design chips?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'd guess that you could throttle a chip without having designed   
   >>> it..   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> They didn't "throttle a chip".   
   >>   
   >> They reduced the speed of the phone when the battery was getting   
   >> close to exhausted; a sensible thing to do, don't you agree?   
   >   
   > Only if the owner of the phone had been informed beforehand.  Perhaps   
   > providing a switch to let the owner decide if they want that option   
   > would have been prudent.  In this case they were found to be guilty of   
   > hiding what they were doing, which made owners upgrade to newer phones   
   > rather than just get new batteries.   
   >   
      
   It's a sensible thing whether or not you inform the owner. The two   
   issues are orthogonal.   
      
   A sudden shutdown without warning is something you do not want.   
      
   But in any case, the speed throttling has nothing to do with the quality   
   of the processor, as Apple's processors are the widely-acknowledged   
   leaders in performance/watt.   
      
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