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  • Samsung pulls an Apple

    From nospam@21:1/5 to not@aol.com on Fri Aug 27 11:27:49 2021
    In article <270820210654118985%not@aol.com>, Scott Schuckert
    <not@aol.com> wrote:


    No it just fucks with the battery life to encourage users to upgrade.

    (GRIN) The reality is just the opposite. If you actually READ what
    people were getting hysterical about, the OS was doing some fairly sophisticated battery management to make sure the customer got the best experience as long as possible. This could involve well-used phones
    being throttled back a bit to save their depleted batteries, and other tweaks. The worst that could be said is that the process wasn't fully transparent to the user.

    yep.

    nobody actually reads any details anymore.

    apple was fixing a problem so that the user *didn't* need to upgrade.

    gimping a product will only encourage someone to upgrade to a competing product. it's a stupid claim.

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org on Fri Aug 27 11:27:47 2021
    In article <lf-dncG-m9qfALX8nZ2dnUU7-cOdnZ2d@giganews.com>, geoff <geoff@nospamgeoffwood.org> wrote:

    https://www.dpreview.com/news/2860455378/samsung-disables-cameras-1800-ga
    la
    xy-z-fold-3-smartphone-if-you-unlock-the-bootloader

    apple doesn't do that.


    Jeepers, Apple would never do anything restrictive to their disciples,
    would they ?

    apple does not disable hardware if an iphone is jailbroken.


    No it just fucks with the battery life to encourage users to upgrade.

    nonsense. apple did no such thing and such a claim is pure idiocy.

    if any company intentionally gimped a product, people would switch to a competing product, no matter what it was.

    it's a ridiculously stupid claim.

    *all* batteries age, no matter what device, and older batteries do not
    perform as well as they do when new. there's no getting around that and
    it's not unique to apple.

    that's why an older car battery might be able to start the engine,
    especially on a cold day. it's why older batteries in a camera flash
    won't recycle the flash, but will work fine in a low demand device,
    such as a radio.

    what apple did was directly address the issue of aging batteries and
    peak demands to *extend* the useful life of the battery and the device
    itself so that users did *not* need to upgrade, the very opposite of
    your claim.

    android device makers ignored the problem of aging batteries entirely,
    leaving users with phones that suddenly shut down, went into boot loops
    or various other problems.

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