• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    They admitted they intentionally slowed down old phones with iOS updates.

    The thing with smartphones is that they’re already good enough. Almost every app is designed to work on a 5yo phone that cost 100 bucks when it was new, so having 16 times the processing power isn’t really useful unless it results in better battery life.