Comment by gcanyon

Does anyone have a cite that Apple knowingly created the issue they were dealing with here?

   1. iPhones have the ability to burst-use a lot of energy
   2. Older batteries aren't able to produce the same voltage as fresh batteries
   3. Apple throttles performance on older iPhones to prevent them shutting down completely by demanding more power than the battery is able to deliver.
   4. Apple doesn't explain to anyone what they're doing.

   2 is just physics/chemistry
   3 and 4 are a mild misstep.

So my question is: did Apple know ahead of time that they were designing phones that would age out of functionality and require this workaround? Or did they design phones that operated at peak functionality when new, and then a few years later realize the consequences of that design decision as the phones got older, and then take a perfectly reasonable course to handle the situation as well as possible, and only screw up in not telling people what they were doing?