<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>egwor</author><text>I might be one of the few, but I think it does warrant it. People buy devices and expect them to work and keep working. If the battery had an issue then it should have flagged up that the phone was saving battery life and that they should replace the battery. We can&amp;#x27;t keep throwing away devices like this; it isn&amp;#x27;t good for the environment.&lt;p&gt;Why do I think it is important to be told? My old iPad has almost overnight slowed right down and it is unusable - utterly pointless using it. Why do you think that it slowed down? A new update? Maybe. Or maybe it is the battery. Let me go check... yes, the battery has an issue. Only because I know where to check means that I know how to resolve the issue. And I know that the battery replacement cost will be ridiculously expensive. If I didn&amp;#x27;t know this then I would buy something else. That&amp;#x27;s pretty bad.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Apple throttling phones to preserve battery life was the right thing to do.&lt;p&gt;Doing it without telling users their batteries were expired and causing their phone to slow down was the wrong thing to do.&lt;p&gt;Whether that merits a $27m fine is debatable.</text></item><item><author>privateSFacct</author><text>Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices.&lt;p&gt;Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don&amp;#x27;t recognize that phone design is a CONSTANT power management &amp;#x2F; speed tradeoff. If you demand things run 100% speed at all times - poof - your batter life is gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-apple-25-million-for-slowing-iphone-software/a-52290154?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bgorman</author><text>I absolutely disagree.&lt;p&gt;These phones were unusable with the throttling. I switched to Android because my iPhone 6 was unusable less than 3 years after getting it.&lt;p&gt;This is like saying that an appropriate fix for a car manufacture is to limit the maximum speed of a car to 25 miles per hour. It breaks so many use cases that the car becomes worthless.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Apple throttling phones to preserve battery life was the right thing to do.&lt;p&gt;Doing it without telling users their batteries were expired and causing their phone to slow down was the wrong thing to do.&lt;p&gt;Whether that merits a $27m fine is debatable.</text></item><item><author>privateSFacct</author><text>Apple implemented this to help users extend life of older devices.&lt;p&gt;Apple should just have phones in France run full clock at all times to comply with this regulation. These types of things don&amp;#x27;t recognize that phone design is a CONSTANT power management &amp;#x2F; speed tradeoff. If you demand things run 100% speed at all times - poof - your batter life is gone.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>France fines Apple €25M for iOS software that slowed down older iPhones</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/france-fines-apple-25-million-for-slowing-iphone-software/a-52290154?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf</url></story>