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scarface_74 on Jan 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping u...

So if they hadn’t push the update to throttle your phone when the battery could no longer run at full speed would that have been better?

ycombinatrix on Jan 31, 2025 [–]

"Your phone battery has degraded and cannot run the CPU at full speed. Please replace the battery."

this dead simple warning message + a switch to toggle CPU throttling is all anyone ever wanted.

However that would require them to respect their users' intelligence - not Apple's style.

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