It took a long time, my account is 15 or 16 years old, but I've not visited the site in a couple of months now. Addict that I was, they managed to cure me with their latest changes, hallelujah.
> You stand in a hallway. There is a guard blocking your path. He requires you to say the a word that will cause him to allow you to pass. Its a word only you know, that you are not allowed to reveal.
> You have a pet dog, his first name is James and his surname is the oddly enough the same secret word that the guard requires.
> You give the dog a brand new name. Firstname Jonathan surname Sikes. Shortly after, the dog runs away.
> Your dog is deaf but responds to the written word that must contain both his first name and surname name, both backwards. You write a sign that will coax him back but it doesn't work because the dog has forgotten his new name and only remembers his previous name. What replacement sign do you write?
Actively throttling is different to slowdown due to a bigger load being placed on the system. Apple have stated that they intentionally throttle. Their reason is battery conservation.
Also please don't talk down to me. You're way, way off base with your assumptions.
My god it's like all the comments on this post are Apple shills.
"If you don't accept this you're a wacky conspiracy theorist"
Fuck me. That's right out of the handbook mate.
The problem that's been complained about for years is decreased performance on upgrade, and no decent downgrade path.
Where were the legions of complaints about random shutdowns that prompted such severe throttling?
People accepting this explanation blindly have never worked for a large company in a PR storm. They don't suddenly start telling the whole truth, especially if the truth was as benign as they state this is. If it's such a non issue, why not mention it in release notes?
That's the second time I've seen that timeframe mentioned in this thread. What was your experience? I don't like upgrading so I tend to keep my Android phones for years and just keep the OS updated. I was getting a good day from my S4 after years of ownership.
>A chemically aged battery also becomes less capable of delivering peak energy loads, especially in a low state of charge, which may result in a device unexpectedly shutting itself down in some situations.
In my years of experience owning smartphones, since the original iPhone, and including a Samsung S4 (decommissioned last month - purchased in 2014). I have never experienced sudden shut off from an aging battery.
I think the annoyance is the slightly smug tone of "Look what I invented. Vector animation and keyframes!"
It's a cool implementation but it feels like they are claiming to have broken amazing new ground. To people that don't understand much of the background technology that's exactly how it reads.
>I'm not understanding why this isn't interesting to programmers who on a daily basis have to weigh up the pros and cons of different technology/library choices.
Perhaps I'm showing my age, but this feels like this problem was solved a long time ago, forgotten or unused to a large extent and now re-invented. Flash was the clever web version back in the day but I can't see anything really new in this.
I could absolutely be missing the point though. I never count that out.