>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3nvmk/apple-iphone-throttling-right-to-repair
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>"...Apple has never said that simply replacing the battery will fix this throttling."
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>These are insinuations of planned obsolescence, one can't help wonder why Apple is being less than completely open about this.
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>But maybe they're true, and fanbois don't care...
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>UPDATE: first lawsuit out of the gate: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/apple_sued_iphone_cpu_speed/

There were lots of suspicions among nerds that they were slowing down the old phones for quite a while -- now that Apple confirmed it the nerds don't look like conspiracy nuts.
This happened to my mother's iPhone - it got slow so went to Apple store to get new battery. Problem though was that when they did that, they also broke the hard-button on the phone so it no longer worked. They installed an app on the phone that is a little floating button and told me that from now on she has to use that since the hard-button no longer worked. It was that - or just buy a new iphone. My mother didn't have a problem with using the app so didn't get another iphone .....but apparently this breaking of the button functionality is not an uncommon thing to have happen when they do battery swaps. I suspect that this could turn even more ugly for Apple since I'm sure a lot people were suckered into getting new phones like that.