Because in the past, Apple has marked iOS versions as compatible even where the hardware performance isn’t sufficient for reasonable use. Since Apple also doesn’t support downgrades of iOS versions, users are reasonably wary at taking Apple at their word for compatibility.
Just once, for one device. It was one of the iPad Airs I think. It had a way too high resolution display for the CPU and really suffered from OS updates.
It's not a problem anymore since most Apple devices are ridiculously overpowered and they have separated iOS from iPadOS.
I’m also not sure why “just once” is supposed to buy back trust. They still don’t allow for iOS downgrades, so the underlying issue hasn’t been addressed.
This is literally a company doing something nice for a change (fixing old hardware’s bug that its aging battery can’t output the necessary output, so decrease the necessary voltage because a phone literally restarting in the middle of the day is just useless), though objectively with terrible PR getting hated for it.
There was literally no malice here, a very serious bug that obsoleted an otherwise out-of-support device of their got fixed. Sure, the best option is the one that was later implemented (people can choose which option they prefer) thanks to governments(!), but let’s not sell this story as something else.
Different case. That was Apple assuming that people would rather have a slower phone that worked instead of a fast phone that just randomly shut down.
Took them like two weeks to release a patch where you can pick which option you like.
As someone who had an iPhone that claimed to have 30-40% battery and then just shut down completely when trying to make a call, I really would've preferred the slowdown option.
Many people mistakenly attribute what the OS does when it detects a degraded battery as an example of this, since it appeared in an update and wasn't properly explained (and no opt-out was provided initially).
It's hard to fault them honestly, most people don't understand how degraded batteries affect their device, they think it's just about how many hours the device lasts on a full charge, when in reality it's much more complex.
