Apple's latest iPhone battery fiasco is a betrayal inside of a betrayal

Conspiracy theorists, rejoice: For once, you were rightApple confessed this week that, yes, it slows down old iPhones to mitigate battery concerns, practically confirming a long-running suspicion: that a tech giant has messed with an old device to encourage people to buy a new device.

And yet: Apple's justification is reasonable, if a bit convoluted. Apple says it developed the update for the iPhone 6, 6S, and SE to prevent them from "unexpectedly shutting down" as a result of degraded batteries. Your iPhone's battery gets worse over time, supposedly to the extent that sudden burst of intense activity could shut your phone down altogether. Multitasking with your iPhone in the freezing cold, for example, could push the device hard enough that it simply turns off. Read more...