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You're surprised a company making a product wants consumers to buy their product?

How does the "slowing down" story keep coming up when it's clear it was the best solution to the problem "what to do when users have the same battery for 3+ years and the device literally cannot sustain itself anymore".

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Not surprised, just a hypothesis on hidden tactics behind.

As for your question, do you really trust in Apple's PR? "Privacy, green, ethical labor"

Oh almost forgot, another case:

3. https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/complete-control-apple-a...

Well, the way I see it is that in the counterfactual world where they didn't downclock, someone who doesn't "trust in Apple's PR" would conclude that the lack of downclocking is so that phones would turn off randomly, nudging people to buy a new phone.

Or they will just be left with a poor brand experience and switched to Android.

Using this logic, please explain the pattern with #2 and #3.