Technology Harvard Study Proves Apple Slows Down old iPhones to Sell Millions of New Models

tom_mai78101

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If you were Apple, what tricks would you utilize to increase the sales of your latest product?

If you know corporations, you’d know they use any possible trick they can as a generality to increase their profit: think of how huge a factor it would make in the sale of new iPhones if the old ones became slower.

People have made the anecdotal observation that their Apple products become much slower right before the release of a new model.

Now, a Harvard University study has done what any person with Google Trends could do, and pointed out that Google searches for “iPhone slow” spiked multiple times, just before the release of a new iPhone each time.

 
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It doesn't prove that. There are other explanations, like that Apple correctly analyzed the natural software bloat cycle and times their hardware releases to appear just when the old hardware starts getting to slow to run the new software.

To prove that the phones are getting slower, they would need to run the same software once when the phone is newly released and then again before the next generation release.

To prove that it is Apple slowing down the phones, they would additionally need to do this with a phone that is not connected to the internet during the whole time and thus shielded from Apple updates.
 

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Journalists are never going to fix these misleading headlines. :(
 
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