Apple Says It Slows Down The Performance Of Old iPhones Intentionally, Twitter Is Furious!
iPhone is one Smartphone, which has always been popular all over the world. In India, it is a sign of class. Apple is one company, which has the best loyal customers. The company deserves it if we consider the service and product. There is something that keeps this phone apart from others.
iPhone has its own class, it lifts the morale of the customers. There are so many profits of the phone, which we don’t want to discuss. We are talking about something, which will make you furious.
However, whenever a person buys an iPhone, they do cry, after all, he/she has to pay a lot. On top of that, the company launched a new phone every year. Every old iPhone users can be seen complaining about the performance and battery life of their phones.
There have been several speculations on the internet and social media, which suggest that the performance of an iPhone decreases after every iOS update. This has been proved by a Twitter user recently. The users reveal that Apple decreases the performance of old iPhone intentionally. He has shared few pictures to prove his point.
Sharing the image, he wrote, “So it’s true Apple intentionally slow down old iPhones. Proof: My iPhone 6 was bought 3years ago and recently got really slow. APP ‘CPU DasherX’ shows iPhone CPU is under clocked running at 600MHz. After a iPhone battery replacement. CPU speed resumed to factory setting 1400MHz”
Here are the snapshots:
Apple has clarified the issue saying that it happens because every new iOS update put more load on the processor, as it has to run some advanced functions. In order to avoid shutting down of the phones, they intentionally slow down its performance.
Here is what they said:
https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/943563799205879809
However, it has not gone down well with the loyal customers of iPhone, who are pretty angry with the company. They have shown their frustration on Twitter. Here are some of the selected Tweets:
Apple confirmed that when a new phone is released they slow the operating speed of old models, claiming it's to maximize the performance the latest tech.
Yeah cuz I'm sure the added effect of frustrated customers giving up and buying the latest model is just a happy coincidence.
— Noah Kinsey (@thenoahkinsey) December 21, 2017
I know plenty of people who buy a new iPhone because they are genuinely pissed off at the performance of their previous model. Right or wrong, being upset doesn’t mean people will always change entire ecosystems. They’ll buy new.
— Andru Edwards (@AndruEdwards) December 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/DJ_Kreation/status/943567338393059328
https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/943574888106942464
https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/943572453267255296
https://twitter.com/mr_luqman_/status/943565647417630725
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