The mother of all mobile-related conspiracy theories was shockingly confirmed one week ago, when Apple admitted that it purposefully slows down old iPhones.
While the company's intention is actually to prolong the life of those
devices that are affected by aging batteries, this admission was
obviously very controversial on the internet, where even much smaller
issues turn into all-out flame wars at times.
What Apple does is it throttles the CPU of iDevices that have old
batteries, in order to prevent situations in which the battery life
becomes worse. And today two of its competitors have chimed in.
Both HTC and Motorola reveal that they do not engage in such behavior
with their products. An HTC spokesperson plainly said that "is not
something we do", while a Motorola spokesperson said the following: "We
do not throttle CPU performance based on older batteries". The Verge
has also reached out to Google, Samsung, LG, and Sony for comment on
this matter, but hasn't heard back from them yet. It would definitely be
interesting if we were to find out that Apple isn't the only company
doing this.
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