Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), betrayed the trust of his clients with the function that limits iPhone performance to prevent sudden closures and of course it is now criticized all over the world for the way it acted. Although almost 3 months have passed since the announcement was made, Apple is still being attacked from all sides due to the limitation of the iPhone's performance, and now it has offered new explanations regarding this decision, which you can see below.
Now Apple has explained to a senatorial committee that it delayed by a month the announcement of changes for iOS 10 made with the idea of solving the problems of sudden shutdowns to see if they have an effect. In January 2017, iOS 10.2.1 was released, which contained these changes, however Apple partially announced what they are doing only on February 23, but blame users for not carefully reading the list of changes provided, otherwise they would have found out what was happening.
Apple explains why it hid the limitation of iPhone performance for a month
However, even in February, Apple did not clearly announce that it was limiting the performance of the iPhone to solve the problem of sudden shutdowns, but only said that it had made some changes to the way of managing battery power. The ambiguous information provided by the American company did not clarify at all the customers who would have definitely wanted to know that they have limited iPhone performance, things continued like this until the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were limited starting with iOS 11.2.
"After gathering and analyzing data, we issued the iOS 10.2.1 software update in January 2017, for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. Then we looked at the diagnostic data made available by the update, and it indicated that the rate of unexpected shutdowns was greatly reduced for iPhone 6 and 6s owners. In February 2017, we updated our iOS 10.2.1 Read Me notes to let customers know the update "improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns." We also provided a statement to several press outlets and said that we were seeing positive results from the software update."
Apple says that it delayed by only one month the disclosure of the fact that it limits the performance of the iPhone, but the reality is that it delayed by 1 year the announcement of the real changes that it made for its phones. Apple lied, that's for sure, but it will be interesting to see how it will pay for this betrayal of customer trust, something that should cost it a lot of sales, but which will not be felt there, and so no one will learn nothing.
Below is the letter sent by Apple to the senators who asked it about performance limitations.
