Apple updates slowing your device?

[SHRED]

Apple admits to slowing older phones because of battery issues


https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/apple-admits-to-slowing-older-phones-because-of-battery-issues/

I think it goes deeper than just for batteries.I think they do this on purpose.

We have two identical older iPads.
One we kept updated and it got slower and slower.
The other we stopped updating way earlier because we just forgot and soon realized we better not based on the other one having problems. Anyway, the one we updated is unusable and lags badly. The iPad we didn't still works fine.

We don't do anything that needs security on the one we didn't update.

This has proven to me that this is planned obsolescence.

[California_Republic]

1. I want to go back.

[Worktodo]

2. Its not the software getting slower

It’s the hardware getting faster. The year over year performance increases have been extraordinary. It’s the entire history of desktop performance being played out on a compressed timescale. We’ve even seen a wholesale move to 64-bit and that only started four years ago. So while I think Apple could do a better job with some things (releasing security updates for older iOS versions for example), this effect is just something we’re going to see everywhere until there is a performance plateau.

[hunter]

3. My Atari 800 was fast enough to write some huge term papers on...

... a senior thesis, grant proposals, graduate school applications, and a bad first novel. I also connected to the university computers via a 300 baud modem. It was a local call, no hourly charges. Unlimited internet!

My Atari also played some really cool games like Pengo and Ms. Pacman.

It's astonishing to me how we carry these supercomputers in our pockets now but we use them for such mundane things, all that computing horsepower wasted on frivolous bling. Eye candy.

The most expensive computer I've bought lately was a Raspberry Pi for $35. The most expensive computer I've ever bought for myself was a shopworn 386 for $300. Since then I upgrade my desktops whenever I find a better computer in the e-waste stream. Okay, dumpster diving, or free on the curb.

Debian, a flavor of Linux, makes old computers young again, and it reminds me a lot of BSD, which was the first real operating system I used, back in the 'seventies.