Arguments about Apple’s lousy iPhone batteries* have got lost in a black hole where technology writing, the blogosphere and applefanboy-ery ‘overlap’.
*not a rhetorical statement: I have a dud battery, officially confirmed by a Genius.
If you have (and still use) an iPhone 6/6s/6Plus you’ll know them as once impressive phones that are now increasingly unreliable and erratic. Lots of people are in denial about this:
Apple is once again in the midst of a ridiculous hubbub about iPhones with older batteries running slower than their newer counterparts.
But t’s not a ridiculous hubub. Everyone I know with a 6/6s/6Plus [n=10+] has real problems with slow/non-responsive phones, unexpected battery death, poor battery life and abysmal cold weather performance.
- Does your phone ‘hang’ all the time?
- Do you miss calls because the touchscreen doesn’t respond to presses?
- Did you get told to wipe your phone and manually *reinstall* everything [not restore an update, but reinstall each app from scratch, one at a time] because there was ‘old software installed by apps’ affecting your battery life? [Advice from a Genius at the Edinburgh Apple Store…]
- Do you think that phone you paid an awful lot of money for should work just a little bit better…??
- Do you think that your phone should be able to play music for more than 20 minutes?
- Do you think your phone should work in the “extreme temperature” of 10C (50F)?
Do you remember when Apple’s slogan was “It just works”? But the platform doesn’t ‘just work’ anymore (See Marco Arment’s great analysis of Apple’s increasingly lousy software from 2015). This is why a lot of current Apple users are either leaving or considering leaving the platform: it’s not half as robust as Apple cheerleaders say it is, and when it doesn’t work you can’t get a good explanation/solution.