I'd share my thoughts, but my Iphone 6 is so laggy, it took me 30 minutes to write this...
LOL. Same here.
Move along, nothing to see here. Since devices don't have infinite power and resources, engineering trade offs have to be made.
The real trade off is Apple used to replace phones with poorly functioning batteries with refurbs, even long after AppleCare for a severe discount. This appears to be meddling to make sure the battery issue isn’t nearly as easy to see, like phones shutting down showing “30% remaining”.
Covering up the problem and slowing the phone is a way to say, “See? It still has eight hours of battery life. It doesn’t meet the criteria.”
They’re just getting greedy. Cook has no ideas, the brain trust left for Google and other greener pastures, and innovation is dead there. A few die hards are still there going, “Well I guess we could do yet another Unix filesystem...” for lack of vision and direction.
Cook is John Scully all over again. Wall Street loves him for a little while, customers are unimpressed and move on once they realize the feature set is lacking, and then the Board is desperate for the founder to come back, but he’s dead this time. Woz isn’t going to do it.
No vision. They’ll coast for a long time on their last real innovations but not forever. Late to wireless charging, late to a dock to turn the device into a desktop, late to OLED screens, late to glass cases (although that’s a backward step for something already as fragile as a mobile phone), did the stylus but only on the top of the line tablet and not the phones and charged big money for it, late to true multitasking and split screen...
... and their biggest competitor has leaks out on not one, but two better devices than their flagship.
Their best hope was to make their OS better and faster. They went completely the opposite direction. This is not how you “wow” people into remaining customers for life.
Samsung royally screwed up the battery thing on Note 7 but they made incredible deals on buying the next fixed gen device with more features to everyone who turned one in.
As far as the experience goes, a device that was once responsive is now slow and buggy if you were an early player in the “plus” sizes. 6 Plus is a horrid experience right now. Even typing is laggy. Let alone switching apps. This is a device that was only discontinued in September of last year and was still for sale until then.
There are users who bought these NEW only one year and three months ago, and iOS 11 utterly craps them out.
Very bad business at Apple these days. Awful in fact. They’re in full panic mode scrambling so hard to stay ahead of Samsung that they’re willing to crap on devices less than two years old.
iTunes, once the industry leader in freeing music by the song from the record labels? Done for. Streaming for the kids, and better music systems for those who collect files now. Horrid and buggy for many years.
iPhone, being surpassed by multiple competitors. App quality is the only thing saving it. Sure isn’t the built in “Mail” app. Or mobile Safari. LOL.
iPad. Again, some apps and disjointed android tablet market.
Mac desktops? High Sierra is literally nothing. It shouldn’t have even gotten a new name. LOL. Sealed all the machines up tight again in 2011 and no user upgrades. And a $5000 “Pro” desktop? Seriously? LOL. They’re doing this crap again? Wasn’t once enough for this mistake?
And headphone deals? Really? AirBuds or whatever?
They better hope they have a really really big announcement up their sleeves soon, because this is all stuff a company who’s run out of ideas acts like in tech. Competitors used to chase Apple. Now Apple is chasing them. Not good.
