Strange that the article ignores Apple being caught red-handed throttling older devices...
I should have looked at the details of the source of the article before posting... much of it is from old data. If you look further down in the article it shows HP and Apple having equal annualized failure rates. I have had terrible luck with recent HP purchases.
Even stranger is the comments on the site says this is 2009 data.
Because if they did not, the then new OS would cause them to over heat and the battery would die.
It wasn’t a throttling to force upgrades - it was a step to protect the device and battery. Personally, I would prefer a slightly slowed device that helps the battery last a bit longer before it HAS to be replaced.
The “scandal” wasn’t the throttling, the scandal was that they didn’t’ tell consumers about it.