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They turn stuff off. It's not a secret. The vast majority of the sensors are off. They're simply not needed in interstellar space.

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Good lord could you imagine the meltdown HN would have if Apple had taken this option to solve the old-batteries-support-lower-peak-current physics problem?

“Your device battery no longer supports the camera. Or the backlight on the top third of the screen. But it runs at full speed otherwise!”

Meh just buy a new Voyager!

OMG the new one is black!!

But it drops the golden record for a more modern, hardware locked bluetooth speaker :(

I actually just bought a new black iPhone so this burns :)

If this happened after 45 years, I don't think people would mind.

Voyager's cameras were shut off after only 13 years to conserve power. Still a long time, but some people might mind if their phone did that.

True but their phones aren't a billion kms away so they can just get the battery replaced :P 13 years is really excellent for lithium batteries.

I mean yeah, it was just a little bit of humor at Apples expense. Obviously the Voyager plan of turning stuff off wouldn't be applicable to an iPhone.

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