NYTimes has a different take: the battery feature is not malicious, merely a way to prolong power. Claims Apple should have announced it rather than being discovered. Apple secrecy is the problem, a very widespread malady in tech glamorization, deceptive hype, market manipulation, not alone in crypto and cybersecurity flim-flam derived from the mother lode of self-enriching secrecy, national security, that evil demon born from auto-insemination religion. Tech is a secular religion, inherently corrupt, exploitive, dressed in sheep's wool of ugly architecture, raunchy couture, most of it sexually predatory. Not only celebrated as outside the law by Assange, Trump and Eric Schmidts by the thousands. Heads down. At 07:30 AM 12/22/2017, you wrote:

There are lots of stories out there about this from the past few days, I'm just pasting in what I was just reading -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/12/21/apple-iphone-battery-lif...

Basically, iOS has a "feature" that deliberately slows down the phone based on the age of the battery. Apple's incentive here is obvious - get you to upgrade to the latest & "greatest", because damn the current model is really starting to feel it's age... Of course they never publicized that they were doing this or that a far cheaper battery replacement would restore performance, a trade off that no doubt many users would've made rather than shell out for a whole new model they don't really need.

Some of the most crass and blatant profit driven software engineering I can think of....

Cheers John