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Apple is known to slow older devices intentionally. They have admitted it. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67911517 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-679

• robin_reala 29d ago
  That’s the literal truth, but the subtlety behind it was that CPU spikes combined with low voltage batteries were causing phones to shut off. Apple’s slowing down the phone down was nominally because customers prefer slightly slower phones to phones that shut off unexpectedly. Should they have announced this as a feature and had a toggle switch to allow users that preferred the option to disable it? Of course. But I don’t necessarily think they did the wrong thing.
  • kridsdale1 28d ago
    Thank you for the sanity. This is like being being mad at Ford because a 20 year old truck runs worse than a new one, and they’d want some engine design that would make it rev in to redline (and blow up while driving) to keep the original horsepower.
• jagenabler2 29d ago
  The devices were slowed because aging batteries creates unstable performance. It wasn't done to intentionally make them obsolete.
• pertymcpert 29d ago
  You say that like what they were doing was a bad thing. It was a feature.