There Is No “Batterygate”, Just Poorly Educated Apple Users
Apparently #BatteryGate is back. Or, what’s more likely, many users forgot how batteries work…
Oh, how the pundits like to call everything a #SomethingGate to make an extra buck, or get an extra like. Look, I get it. Apple does make mistakes and when it does, it’s really embarrassing. #BendGate was definitely one to remember. I feel, though, that since the iPhone 6 started turning from iPhone to BananaPhone in people’s back pockets, everyone is downright looking with schadenfreudian hate for anything and everything it could call an #AppleGate, and the latest iteration of #BatteryGate is certainly one of them.
A single-paragraph history
In 2016 Apple made the pragmatic but somewhat uninspired decision of throttling through iOS their iPhones when the battery capacity was low. It was either that, or let the user deal with an unstable device randomly rebooting. The choice they made was the right one, not communicating that choice wasn’t — though it depends on who you ask. What followed was class-action lawsuits across the globe, payouts — happening as we speak — and updates to iOS to make battery-health easily inspectable. And that’s ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, aliens and superheroes, the one-paragraph story…
