But it often seems that these days one has to become a computer or phone expert to keep their older devices from slowing to a crawl. This is for various reasons, but it it all seems to work to force one into buying ever more powerful devices. I didn't really mind when this was for making photo, video editing, 3D rendering, or raw number crunching less time intensive, but these days it is being used against us for better tracking and targeting us for ads and leftist nonsense.
So, is the Italian government going to use the penalty money to help the affected consumers, or are they going to use the penalty money for general expenses and other giveaways?
It could be that Italy was the testing ground for other countries, where they may insist on getting their just dues for the Apple and Samsung deeds?
BTW, what Apple and Samsung did here is not exactly applicable to PCs? There were no automatic updates from MS to offset the slowdowns on people’s or companies’ PCs.
Linux Ubuntu is as easy to install as Windows these days. I have installed in on several older machines for people who are technically challenged so they can use old machines for web browsing. They run like new and do not get bogged down with spyware or updates.
After several "updates" it was completely useless.
There’s lots of different reasons for slow downs. I believe the issue here is that the battery isn’t replaceable and degrades over time - so their “solution” was to slow the processor down so it consumes less energy.
Is this reasonable though? It’s the reality of these battery technologies. They could have left things alone and users would just experience terrible battery performance requiring almost perpetual charging. If the phone isn’t designed to easily replace the battery then I would, as a user, probably accept the changes.
What Apple should probably have done is to fully disclose what the update would impact and let the user make the choice. That said, it would be difficult to manage future updates - likely needed for security patching - if you have groups of users that made different choices.
Exactly why I go with the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) Plan. Windoze updates are turned OFF, when I was running Mozilla/Foxfire/Firefox whatever I didn’t update them, JAVA, iOS & Android got no updates. I now run Brave Browser and am still 2 iOS updates behind. Things run fine.
I don’t go anywhere else but FR, E-Mail and a few Links via FR, uploads to My Pic Hosting site and pay some Bills every month.
Oh yeah, during Election Season I go to some politicians sites to complain.