애플, iOS 판올림 구형 아이폰 성능 일부러 제한

기사출처 http://it.chosun.com/news/article.html?no=2844206

애플이 최신 iOS를 설치한 구형 아이폰의 속도를 의도적으로 늦추고 있다는 음모론이 실험을 통해 입증됐다. 단말기 속도가 느려지면 배터리를 교체해야 한다는 주장도 나온다.

18일(현지시각) 비즈니스인사이더에 따르면 IT 기기 벤치마크 사이트인 긱벤치는 애플이 아이폰 운영체제(OS) iOS를 통해 배터리 노후화 정도를 파악한 뒤, 구형 아이폰일 경우 프로세서 속도를 늦추고 있다는 실험 결과를 공개했다.  

풀 연구원은 "이번 실험은 '내 휴대폰이 느려졌으니 휴대폰을 교체해야겠다'는 생각을 하기보다 '내 휴대폰이 느려졌으니 배터리를 교체해야겠다'고 생각하는 편이 낫다는 것을 보여준다"고 말했다.  

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[Geekbench]

iPhone Performance and Battery Age / John Poole

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-and-battery-age/ 

(발췌)

Apple acknowledged the sudden shutdown issue that affected the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s earlier this year. However, does the same issue affect the iPhone 7? Apple appears to have added a similar change to iOS 11.2.0 for the iPhone 7.

If the performance drop is due to the “sudden shutdown” fix, users will experience reduced performance without notification. Users expect either full performance, or reduced performance with a notification that their phone is in low-power mode. This fix creates a third, unexpected state. While this state is created to mask a deficiency in battery power, users may believe that the slow down is due to CPU performance, instead of battery performance, which is triggering an Apple introduced CPU slow-down. This fix will also cause users to think, “my phone is slow so I should replace it” not, “my phone is slow so I should replace its battery”. This will likely feed into the “planned obsolecense” narritive.

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[Macrumors]

Geekbench Results Visualize Possible Link Between iPhone Slowdowns and Dgraded Batteries / Joe Rossignol

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/18/geekbench-iphone-6s-slowdowns/ 

“What this all means is that Apple may be intentionally slowing down older iPhones to maximize power efficiency and stability when battery capacity has degraded, as speculated, seemingly without publicly acknowledging so.”  

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"애플, 구형 아이폰 성능 의도적으로 떨어뜨렸다" / 안하늘

http://naver.me/xnaDNIXQ 

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planned obsolecense 

(계획적 진부화)

http://100.daum.net/encyclopedia/view/99XX32100073 

built-in obsolecense

(고의적 진부화)

http://100.daum.net/encyclopedia/view/54XXX1090127 

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