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Don’t Blame Apple For Your Slow iPhone. Blame Apps
Each year, Fall ushers in a few certainties. Leaves change color and fall gently to the ground. Pumpkin spice flavors turn up in unlikely foodstuffs. And iPhone owners feel pretty sure that Apple has intentionally slowed down their smartphone, in a dastardly attempt to get them to upgrade to the latest model. That last one? It’s not a thing. Hue and cry about Apple’s “planned obsolescence” has burbled up for years, at one point gracing even the pages of The New York Times Magazine. But a new look at historic iPhone performance data disproves the notion for good.
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You must be holding it wrong. — Apple
I thought Apps had to be approved by Apple to be on the App Store? This is like Microsoft blaming other developers for the shittiness of Windows.
Worse, it's like a two-bit writer kissing ass at Microsoft by carrying water for them at Wired. This drivel is instrumented fraud being passed off as authoritative evidence you don't know the obvious already. I'm embarrassed for anyone associated with this.