Dethac

I'm not the most well educated in this, but would it be viable to have Floatplane be a subsidiary under LMG? I assume it's already been considered and shot down, but I'd love if someone more well-informed could tell me why Also, nested comments for Floatplane (sort of like Reddit)? Allows for replies and more discussion, which can't be bad, right?

I don't think throttling the device is a bad thing on its own. Hell, a few other OEMs (I believe) have it as an option. Samsung, for example, has different power saving modes that limit (or throttle) the CPU. That's fine. What isn't is a few things: The lack of transparency on this issue from Apple (bad), the hardlining of the devices or the poor design of the battery (slightly less bad but still very bad), and the fact that a lot of people probably bought new iPhones to try and get a faster phone (really bad). The lack of transparency on Apple's part is a significant flaw that makes Apple's justifications just a tiny bit harder to believe. No notification is given to the user that the battery can't deliver the power necessary for the system. Instead, the processor is throttled silently without the user's knowledge. Apple already gives a notification when the battery reaches a level that Apple deems to be too poor to continue using: 80%. Evidently, Apple's phones can't degrade that far before facing performance issues, and since APPLE THEMSELVES are creating the notification, what harm is there in adding a second one when throttling becomes necessary to keep the phone operating as it should? Apple isn't telling its users that there's an issue with their device when there is, and that's really bad. The design is also pretty sketchy. The battery isn't at 80% capacity yet, and if we assume it hits 80% after 2 years of pretty constant usage, then after 1 year it should be around 90% give or take. How is it that Apple's battery design can't power the system effectively with a 10% decrease in battery capacity? The battery in the iPhone is too small to deliver the amount of power necessary, or, if it is an issue with the current being delivered, the wiring of the battery is poor and... basically, the iPhone's battery is built right to the edge of what's necessary to save either weight (hence size) or cost. If we look at the size of the battery, this doesn't seem unreasonable. The iPhone 6 has an 1810 mAh battery, while the S6 has a 2550 mAh battery. Apple's power efficiency improvements in iOS work well with a smaller battery because black box magic, but longevity is clearly affected because the size of the battery has such a narrow margin of acceptable decay that after a year and at most 10% loss of battery capacity, the processor has to be throttled. What? How can this be fixed? Easy. Have a larger battery. Even if you lock the battery to only charge between certain values (say 10% and 90%, which of course shows up as 0% and 100% to the user), this results in a much larger margin for which the battery can degrade without it impacting performance. If you charge it normally with that extra capacity, the same effect. It gives more "breathing room" for the system to draw from the battery, which means that the battery can degrade more without impacting performance. Third, as a culmination of the previous points, what happens to MOST PEOPLE when their technology starts slowing down? They sure as hell aren't going to try to troubleshoot; that's for nerds and geeks and techies (/s). Instead, they're probably going to go buy a new phone because, hey, their phone is slowing down so technology is clearly getting too much for them. Sure, the battery replacement is given as an option, but Apple doesn't inform you until your battery reaches 80%, and at that point you've suffered through a throttled processor for quite some time already. Anecdotally, when I tried to replace my battery at an Apple store when it was at about 90% a few days back when this first hit Reddit (I benchmarked, yay! This was my second iPhone 6. My first had been replaced a while back for connectivity issues and the battery dying at 27% randomly), I got turned straight around by the Apple store employees. Inconclusive, but it shows that simply bringing it in to a store isn't going to fix all your issues. The issue here is that Apple doesn't inform you that there's a defect in their product and that they built their phones (and especially their batteries) too close to the limit until its far too late. So what does that mean for the consumer? Nothing good, that's for sure. It's not conclusive, but we can say that Apple is building their devices far too close to the THIS IS VERY BAD line and that after as little as a year preventative measures are necessary to insure the device continues operating, albeit slower than at purchase. This on its own isn't that bad. However, the lack of communication with customers and the hiding of the fact that the hardware can't keep up with the demands of the system makes this whole shebang suspicious.