Last year ended with a bang, a bang in the tech world that is.
In this era of ridiculous class action suits, some whiners thought they had found something to predict further doom for Apple whine about take Apple Inc to court with.
Whatever, photo by Tom Heftiba on Unsplash
In a nutshell, the complaint goes like this (paraphrased):
A user focused company has decided to extend the longevity of user’s devices by slowing down the performance of older devices when devices experience performance issues. Most often, those performance changes are released in a follow-on OS update, after a major update and new device introduction.
Because the company doesn’t state at new device launch that they from then on will intentionally slow down older device, slow down and not improve the user’s experience when under heavy load, the company lacks transparency and deserves to be taken to the bleachers. No matter the fact that such updates are never part of the initial new roll out of the operating system, but come in a bug fix release. After users had the opportunity to assess and complain about performance of the new software on their older devices.
Of course, it didn’t take long before Android behemoths LG and Samsung thought they could earn brownie points by stating the obvious that they, known benchmark optimizers, don’t retroactively implement such tweaks and thus do not slow down older devices
As if they issued updates for older Android devices in the first place. Especially if not top shelf devices from their portfolio.
But whatever.
While the issue was top drawer of any top rag though, some guy decided to talk some sense. Sense which I can back up from personal experience.
When you’re on iOS and you experience a slow device, act the same you would do with a Windows device: reformat.
Well, he didn’t exactly say that. Mostly because iOS is slightly smarter but I can vouch for the validity of his claim and more than one older device has been optimized in performance just by resetting it from scratch and playing in a (iCloud) backup.
Go read Michael Glenn’s iPhone performance issue experience here.
While his sue seems iOS11 bound, and it is true that iOS11 seems to have brought several older devices in the knee, I can confirm that method of restoring and using a backup as a viable strategy.
As for the Androidtarts, I ask you how many can play Injustice 2 Mobile on a device as old as the iPhone 5. With the most recent version of Android.
Thought so... zero.