John Poole, the owner of Primate Labs, discovered and blogged about an effort by Apple to limit performance on iPhones in December, sparking global press coverage and an abject apology from Apple. The news from Primate Labs in December, which finally found evidence of a concerted effort to slow down a smartphone, led to a wave of outrage. The update fixed the issue, but also frustrated its customers with a new one, as older iPhones slowed to a crawl. Apple made the change with a software update that described “some vague notion about power management,” Poole said, and left users in the dark about what was happening to their phones. For most iPhone users, they were suddenly holding a device that was achingly slow and without any explanation why.

Source: National Post March 02, 2018 21:11 UTC