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Does Apple Ruin Your iPhone on Purpose The Conspiracy Explained
I completely believe this is happening, and it's intentional.
What if Apple can induce you to purchase a new device at its whim—by rendering your old devices useless? According to some smartphone paranoids, Apple products don't just have a short shelf life—they're actually designed to slow down, exactly (and conveniently) when newer models are available. Or, even more ominously, Apple is intentionally beaming software to your handset that makes it shit the bed.
"Planned Obsolescence"
Masterful marketing is one thing, but deliberately building expensive phones that aren't made to last is a deceitful practice known as "planned obsolescence," and iPhone owners have been speculating about it for years. The slowdown conspiracy's biggest mainstream moment was a 2013 article in the New York Times Magazine by Catherine Rampell:
At first, I thought it was my imagination. Around the time the iPhone 5S and 5C were released, in September, I noticed that my sad old iPhone 4 was becoming a lot more sluggish. The battery was starting to run down much faster, too. But the same thing seemed to be happening to a lot of people who, like me, swear by their Apple products. When I called tech analysts, they said that the new operating system (iOS 7) being pushed out to existing users was making older models unbearably slow. Apple phone batteries, which have a finite number of charges in them to begin with, were drained by the new software. So I could pay Apple $79 to replace the battery, or perhaps spend 20 bucks more for an iPhone 5C. It seemed like Apple was sending me a not-so-subtle message to upgrade.
I completely believe this is happening, and it's intentional.