While Apple has many issues, their support of older phones is really good. You can replace the battery once and still use the same phone for at least 5-6 years.
My current phone is 4.5 years old and still going strong, with latest software versions.
That was not to get you to buy another phone, in fact the opposite. It was to keep your phone functional even though it had a worn out battery.
In phones there is this concept called a ‘race to idle’. Basically, you want your phone to do nothing, because doing nothing uses very little energy. So when you do something on your phone, the goal is to do it as quickly as possible so it can go back to doing nothing and save battery. Your phone will be in this low-power idle state 99.999% of the time. You still want your phone to be responsive though, when you click on something you want it to respond without delay. That means that when you tell it to do something it has to go from this low power state back to a high speed state.
Now, iOS is really aggressive in this, it ramps up the CPU speed really fast. As a result, the power draw of the CPU goes from almost nothing to a high power draw very quickly. This causes problems with old batteries. As a battery ages it not only loses capacity, but it also becomes slower to respond to changes in power draw. If the CPU needs a lot of power quickly and the battery can’t keep up you get a brownout (drop in voltage) and the phone basically crashes and reboots.
So what Apple has done is that when iOS detects this happening (i.e. a crash due to the battery being unable to keep up), it will ramp up the CPU a little slower. Or to use a car analogy: they don’t change the top speed, but are less aggressive on the gas so it takes a little longer to get to that top speed. If you replace the battery it goes back to the original behavior.
This is basically a good thing, the alternative is that your phone keeps crashing. Where they screwed up is that they failed to inform users of this.
Walk into Apple store, hand over phone, pick it up an hour later. Couldn’t be easier. Looking at prices, 3rd party repair services using non-original parts charge the same or more as Apple does.
It doesn’t get progressively slower over time, it’s either in degraded mode or it isn’t.
If you want to use a car analogy, it’s comparable to limp mode. When your car detects an engine problem it goes into limp mode in which you don’t have full performance but you can at least get home. You’d rather have your car not do this and risk damaging the engine, or would you prefer it to simply stop working and leave you stranded?
Batteries wear out, it’s an unfortunate property of our current battery tech. You can either let your phone get unstable (risking data loss), have it refuse to work at all, or let its run in reduced performance mode so it at least stays usable. Those are your options. Pick one.
PCs dont need the manufacturer (eg lenovo dell hp) to push updates to windows because the hardware is standardized and vendors cooperate to make windows interoperable.
this should be a thing with phones. let me get any compatible os into it instead of locking and signing it to the oem’s ancient firmware. better yet, let me get android directly from google or whatever.
Yeah for sure, it’s super useful. Also interesting to see if and why your own comments get removed.
Like the time I called someone a zionist shill, I kinda get. The first comment of mine that got removed was a pretty supportive pro-trans comment but maybe the mod thought I was being too aggressive toward the person I replied to? Anyways, love that there’s that transparency here
If you want this, the market offered you solutions. I have a phone from 2019 that’s too slow, I would not want to use it in 2026 so I wouldn’t need 7 years of updates. They should not be forced on vendors who release budget phones
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While Apple has many issues, their support of older phones is really good. You can replace the battery once and still use the same phone for at least 5-6 years.
My current phone is 4.5 years old and still going strong, with latest software versions.
we shoudnt depend on the goodwill of a corporation tho.
phones should be as standardized and open as computers so it doesnt really depend on them.
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Like, say, slow down an older phone so one has to buy a new faster phone? Source
That was not to get you to buy another phone, in fact the opposite. It was to keep your phone functional even though it had a worn out battery.
In phones there is this concept called a ‘race to idle’. Basically, you want your phone to do nothing, because doing nothing uses very little energy. So when you do something on your phone, the goal is to do it as quickly as possible so it can go back to doing nothing and save battery. Your phone will be in this low-power idle state 99.999% of the time. You still want your phone to be responsive though, when you click on something you want it to respond without delay. That means that when you tell it to do something it has to go from this low power state back to a high speed state.
Now, iOS is really aggressive in this, it ramps up the CPU speed really fast. As a result, the power draw of the CPU goes from almost nothing to a high power draw very quickly. This causes problems with old batteries. As a battery ages it not only loses capacity, but it also becomes slower to respond to changes in power draw. If the CPU needs a lot of power quickly and the battery can’t keep up you get a brownout (drop in voltage) and the phone basically crashes and reboots.
So what Apple has done is that when iOS detects this happening (i.e. a crash due to the battery being unable to keep up), it will ramp up the CPU a little slower. Or to use a car analogy: they don’t change the top speed, but are less aggressive on the gas so it takes a little longer to get to that top speed. If you replace the battery it goes back to the original behavior.
This is basically a good thing, the alternative is that your phone keeps crashing. Where they screwed up is that they failed to inform users of this.
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Walk into Apple store, hand over phone, pick it up an hour later. Couldn’t be easier. Looking at prices, 3rd party repair services using non-original parts charge the same or more as Apple does.
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Many hundreds? I checked an a replacement for my iPhone 13 Pro battery is $89.
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You’d rather have a phone that randomly crashes?
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It doesn’t get progressively slower over time, it’s either in degraded mode or it isn’t.
If you want to use a car analogy, it’s comparable to limp mode. When your car detects an engine problem it goes into limp mode in which you don’t have full performance but you can at least get home. You’d rather have your car not do this and risk damaging the engine, or would you prefer it to simply stop working and leave you stranded?
Batteries wear out, it’s an unfortunate property of our current battery tech. You can either let your phone get unstable (risking data loss), have it refuse to work at all, or let its run in reduced performance mode so it at least stays usable. Those are your options. Pick one.
It’s been like this for a very long time, but you gotta hate somewhere I guess
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standardization.
PCs dont need the manufacturer (eg lenovo dell hp) to push updates to windows because the hardware is standardized and vendors cooperate to make windows interoperable.
this should be a thing with phones. let me get any compatible os into it instead of locking and signing it to the oem’s ancient firmware. better yet, let me get android directly from google or whatever.
Why have this persons comments been deleted? They’ve got upvotes, so likely not that outlandish.
You mean here or in other threads? They’ve made and stood by some ignorant arguments before, just look at their username.
Edit: also you can look at the modlog https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=6104586
tldr they’re a terrible person or troll
Oof, yeah, that is a lot. Good riddance.
Also thanks for pointing that out, didn’t know modlog was a thing tbh.
Yeah for sure, it’s super useful. Also interesting to see if and why your own comments get removed.
Like the time I called someone a zionist shill, I kinda get. The first comment of mine that got removed was a pretty supportive pro-trans comment but maybe the mod thought I was being too aggressive toward the person I replied to? Anyways, love that there’s that transparency here
Google already offers 7 years
If you want this, the market offered you solutions. I have a phone from 2019 that’s too slow, I would not want to use it in 2026 so I wouldn’t need 7 years of updates. They should not be forced on vendors who release budget phones