raclark77

If they had told people what they were doing before just slowing peoples phones down without their consent it would be different.

This action is tantamount to malware being pushed out as a software update. More reason to NOT trust company updates.

And now to restore the device to previous conditions the user must pay for a new battery?! How is this not equal to randsomware?! Having to spend money that had not been planned on being spent until this is basically extortion.

At $29 a pop just how many millions will this make them?! This is outrageous, and just laughable that some of the people commenting here are just fine with this as it is.

This just happened to slow down old devices at the exact same time as new Apple phones being sold too! This is too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

I feel Apple has overstepped with this whole situation. The price reduction on a maintenance that wasn't needed until their actions is not a fix of any kind.

As it stands now, I have no plans to buy anything Apple again. Microsoft, and Apple both are making some boneheaded decisions lately. I almost think they might just be the same company secretly.

They were caught red handed. Me paying them for their actions is not going to make me feel any better about this in any way.

If this was all fine, then why was it secretly/silently done?