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Planned obsolescence that is how, we didn’t get today this without some conscious evil supervillain planning - from the time how long light bulbs lasted to apple reducing battery performance via software .

What is stopping car companies to do something similar to car batteries for safety or performance reasons?

It is far easier for a manufacturer to control a car and its lifetime with EV and modern ECU stack .

They do not need to allow anyone else to access either . Even the RTR movement is more cautious in asking to be able modify road cars on the road, it is one thing to be able to repair your own tractor , it is another thing when the safety of others on the road .

Automakers can get away with lot of things by citing safety .

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> apple reducing battery performance via software

Only because I think it’s a travesty when this dig goes unchallenged:

Batteries get old and have voltage drop at high current; that is called physics. Chips reset below a design voltage; that is also called physics. Slower phones are better UX than rebooting under load. Next time, just say “I hate Apple” rather than repeating debunked stuff.

I've had a lot of different non-Apple smartphones over the last 15 years or so, and don't recall any of them ever rebooting under load, whether that be for as a result of "physics" or any other cause. Maybe I'm just remarkably lucky?

All of my phones (except the iPhone, actually) had hard reboot issues at around the 2-3yr mark. Usually at under 30% battery charge under high load. HTC Incredible, Galaxy S4, and Nexus 6. Nexus 6 was the worst, but I also had that one the longest.

My iPhone X didn't have shutoff issues, but the battery did swell enough to push out the screen, which Apple replaced for free even with an expired warranty.

I've experienced it a couple times on Androids. IME it goes very quickly from that stage to unusable when the battery is that far gone. Plus on one phone I noticed the cover bulging at that point too.

Had they serviceable batteries we'd have to do neither. Apple isn't exactly known for their repairability

Apple settled this ? https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831939/apple-iphone-bat...

Where is I hate apple coming from ? I was merely referencing this well known case

Those batteries seem to get old and have voltage drop at high current right at the exact time which Apple is about to launch a new device though...

My iPhone SE fell out of my pocket and shattered the screen on the day Apple launched the iPhone 12 Mini. Coincidence, … or not?

You mean… once a year? Because yeah, over 8% of batteries will age out in the month Apple releases a new phone, even with a random distribution.

The window in the normal person’s mind for “they’re doing this on purpose” is probably the month of the event announcement, plus the month the event happens in, and then the month afterwards is when the phones ship and friends start getting them. That’s a solid 25% of the year that would look suspicious to a conspiracy theorist.

I used the change lightbulbs all the time, now they last forever. I can't even recall the last time a lightbulb went out on me, it must've been years.

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