Report of Apple throttling iPhone, iPad speeds on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint mistaken
Just a day after a developer wrote a blog entry maintaining that Apple was intentionally limiting cellular download speeds for iPhone and iPad users on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, the claims have been withdrawn and his mistake in understanding how carrier bundle files has been explained.
Advertised theoretical data speeds for iPhone 5. | Source: Apple
Brian Klug, writing for AnandTech, detailed the purpose of the "carrier bundle" files Apple uses to configure its devices for various mobile providers.
"Apple doesn't limit cellular data throughput on its devices," Klug stated, noting that "there's both no incentive for them to do so, and any traffic management is better off done in the packet core of the respective network operator rather than on devices."
Apple itself explains in a support document that iOS carrier settings "include updates to Access Point Names (APNs), MMS settings, features such as tethering, and default apps," but as Klug detailed, these files are not used to "throttle" data speeds.
Instead, Klug noted that, where there are two settings inside the files with the word "throttle" in them, these "refer purely to a retry interval throttle to prevent the phone from continually trying to reattach to an LTE network in the case of some error."
Klug added, "there's no reason for Apple to want to arbitrarily limit their devices, and the reality is that they don't, at all, on any version of iPad or iPhone or in any of the carrier bundles they've distributed for network operators.
"If anything, Apple has long been one of the few handset vendors who initially understood the importance of limiting annoying operator customizations. The Carrier Bundles are quite literally the only place in the entire OS they have indirect access (through Apple) to toggles they can play with."
The original report of Apple's assumed "throttling" of carrier download speeds was based on the idea that certain settings "which appear to hamstring the handset's cellular data capabilities," but this is not the case.
Advertised theoretical data speeds for iPhone 5. | Source: Apple
Brian Klug, writing for AnandTech, detailed the purpose of the "carrier bundle" files Apple uses to configure its devices for various mobile providers.
"Apple doesn't limit cellular data throughput on its devices," Klug stated, noting that "there's both no incentive for them to do so, and any traffic management is better off done in the packet core of the respective network operator rather than on devices."
Apple itself explains in a support document that iOS carrier settings "include updates to Access Point Names (APNs), MMS settings, features such as tethering, and default apps," but as Klug detailed, these files are not used to "throttle" data speeds.
Instead, Klug noted that, where there are two settings inside the files with the word "throttle" in them, these "refer purely to a retry interval throttle to prevent the phone from continually trying to reattach to an LTE network in the case of some error."
Klug added, "there's no reason for Apple to want to arbitrarily limit their devices, and the reality is that they don't, at all, on any version of iPad or iPhone or in any of the carrier bundles they've distributed for network operators.
"If anything, Apple has long been one of the few handset vendors who initially understood the importance of limiting annoying operator customizations. The Carrier Bundles are quite literally the only place in the entire OS they have indirect access (through Apple) to toggles they can play with."
The original report of Apple's assumed "throttling" of carrier download speeds was based on the idea that certain settings "which appear to hamstring the handset's cellular data capabilities," but this is not the case.
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Apple CEO, Tim Cook, rumored to resign amid controversial statements regarding infants and cruelty to animals, one analyst states.
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Apple CEO, Tim Cook, rumored to resign amid controversial statements regarding infants and cruelty to animals, one analyst states.
You should at least include the Business Insider link to such articles...
But I quoted my analyst source!! I'm buckin for a job at AI.
"Klug added, "there's no reason for Apple to want to arbitrarily limit their devices,"
Check out the brain on Klug! (said in my Samuel L. Jackson voice)
I think that a lot of people are trying desperately to make Apple out to be the bad guy So they take a small snippet of something and run with it without understanding the context. The sort of things politicians usually due around campaign time.
In other words, a typical Thursday.
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omg ... i heard tim cook is over there behind that dumpster *right now* kicking a dog and calling a baby *names*! hurry.
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, rumored to resign amid controversial statements regarding infants and cruelty to animals, one analyst states.
Are you sure??!?!!?
...I heard he was throttling them...
It's called a "nation of bloggers".
And if you're the one caught making the mistake, you say, "Whoops-a-Mike-Daisy!"
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Too priceless for words. The rush to publish negative news about Apple bites so-called "journalists" in the buttocks once again.
He got the clicks he was after, collateral damage be damned. In his book, that is a win. Reputation does not seem to matter when others pick it up and reprint it, as long as it is negative and has the word Apple.
Well turned. /bow
Yet another worthless article that was posted by some ignoramus on their blog, and then picked up and reported as news, even though it turned out to be 100% false.
And if it doesn't, it won't be interesting - it'll be the same as any other hit piece directed at Apple. Major headlines on the negative, barely a mention that it was untrue.
He's the same guy that's been posting patches that supposidly make your phone's 3G/4G speeds a little faster, but it also kills battery life. Instead of apologizing or updating his article, the developer just deleted his blog post...
Who's getting fired for reporting this?
That's the question we ALL need to be asking of the original source. Who is getting fired for reporting this. Because they need to be fired.