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sudo wrote (edited )

ABSOLUTELY

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Edit: Actually, no. Here's an important quote from another article written by the professor that taught the student who released the paper:

The important distinction is of intent. In the benign explanation, a slowdown of old phones is not a specific goal, but merely a side effect of optimizing the operating system for newer hardware. Data on search frequency would not allow us to infer intent. No matter how suggestive, this data alone doesn’t allow you to determine conclusively whether my phone is actually slower and, if so, why.

So, it could just be because everyone updates to the latest version of iOS on release day, and the new version of iOS isn't optimized for older phones, thus slowing them down. What we really need somebody to do is disassemble iOS, then check to see if there's a "slow mode" that Apple can remotely activate, like this article claims. Until someone can do that, though, this doesn't actually prove that Apple deliberately slows the phones down. Correlation is not causation.

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surreal wrote

trying to look a the cube for what it really is, 2D, but it comes back 3D. stupid brain..

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sudo wrote

Does removing the diagonal lines help?

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elyersio wrote

That is the most capitalist thing I've ever heard of.

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