Sentence examples for performance throttling from inspiring English sources
Second, how long had the lack of cheap battery replacements and their performance benefits propped up iPhone sales through needless upgrades before Apple admitted to its now-infamous performance throttling scandal?
Despite Apple promising owners of these phones last year that they would not be subject to the same controversial performance throttling the company applies to older iPhones, iOS 12.1 has introduced it for all three models.
For example, a consumer group filed a complaint of planned obsolescence in France late last year — on account of Apple performance throttling older iPhones — something the company has faced multiple complaints over and some regulatory scrutiny.
I wrote about HTC's and Motorola's statements regarding Apple's iPhone performance throttling due to diminished batteries a couple of days ago.
For those who bought an iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus or iPhone X last year only to find out performance throttling is likely to begin this year may feel shortchanged as well.
Of course, the cynical response to this is: performance throttling doesn't begin for at least a year so a) the controls aren't yet needed for these models anyway, and b) Apple could simply introduce them after a year when they have been replaced by the new, latest, greatest iPhones.
Earlier this week Apple CEO Tim Cook said it's working on an iOS update that will inform iPhones users if their phone is being performance throttled because of the age of its battery.
Over the last few days we've seen outcry about Apple's new MacBook Pro, which offers an optional top-end i9 processor, and how its performance is throttled to the point of parody as the laptop heats up over time.
Towers provide plenty of space for chips to run hotter and therefore faster than they can in laptops, without throttling performance to avoid overheating problems.
For a number of iPhone owners iOS 11.2.2 is throttling performance by as much as 50%.
In December Apple responded publicly to complaints that it throttles performance on older iPhones, saying it was managing performance in order to prolong the life of devices by avoiding unexpected shutdowns caused by older batteries not being able to handle peaks of processing power.
