Was Apple Wrong To Throttle Older iPhones?

Despite a public backlash, Ben Lovejoy at 9To5Mac doesn’t think Apple was in the wrong for throttling older iPhones. Yet, the fact that the tech titan only revealed the maneuver this
week is troubling, according to Lovejoy. “The fact that Apple has been slowing down older devices plays right into the hands of [conspiracy theories],” he writes. “For years,
we’ve all been reassuring iPhone owners that Apple doesn’t deliberately slow older devices, and now it turns out we were wrong: it has.”

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