Except Apple has already been found guilty of throttling old devices to try to force users to upgrade. They’ve been doing this for a long time, but they’ve only been ordered to pay a settlement in recent years for doing it with their iPhones.
But honestly the older Macbook Airs don’t need to be throttled, they just need the old universal dongles to crap out, IIRC those things were useless without the dongle to connect all your peripherals .
I really didn’t wanna have a pissing contest but battery throttling was introduced to stop sudden turnoffs on old batteries which people also bitched at Apple about. Putting a new battery in makes things run like new- I did that and my 6yo iPhone and it’s tip top. I use it for drone flights.
Dongles are also not an Apple specific thing, my shit fell from work has this massive fucking dock to turn the power adaptor from dell to usb c and provide Ethernet and old usb ports. If you just use all usb c stuff, dongles aren’t needed right?
You’re just baiting and I’m done talking about it, it’s boring.
Gotta give credit where it’s due. Apple the engineering company has really proven themselves, especially these last few years with the M1 and M2 chips. However Apple the brand name company sucks with dumbed down everything, greedy practices, anti-consumer tactics, and a closed economy.
