[TheBattman]

Except that the battery is only warranted for a year - and these devices seeing throttling are generally older than a year. The Lithium ion batteries generally do pretty well up to 500 full charge cycles (for the vast majority of users - that’s over a year).

Several manufacturers don’t even give that much of a warranty on their batteries -

[Swordmaker]

The Lithium ion batteries generally do pretty well up to 500 full charge cycles (for the vast majority of users - that’s over a year).

This is the result of a low-voltage high-amperage draw on a battery. . . the thing that Apple was trying to avoid.