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Originally Posted by Voidbarker

gestures to the fact that apple and android / google / whatever the fuck is behind the fucking android phones purposefully slow down the phones after a year or so.

Apple is the only one I know of to do that intentionally, and it's not based on time, it's based on battery condition; they lower the power consumption of the phone in order to make it last longer on a charge. Replace the battery and it speeds back up. (As long as you get it replaced by an authorized Apple service center, because Apple does give a big middle finger to third-party service because it won't trust a replacement battery unless it's given an Apple seal of approval.)