Couple of thoughts came to mind when I read this. The first was thinking that Apple was pretty clever to do such a thing. The other was thinking what kind of evil bastards would do this to a loyal customer base. Coming on the 50 BILLION dollar loss in stock value after the release of the IPhone 8, I hope they fail completely. Corporations should have to pay for bad decisions.
If you were Apple, what tricks would you utilize to increase the sales of your latest product?
If you know corporations, you’d know they use any possible trick they can as a generality to increase their profit: think of how huge a factor it would make in the sale of new iPhones if the old ones became slower.
People have made the anecdotal observation that their Apple products become much slower right before the release of a new model.
Now, a Harvard student’s study has done what any person with Google Trends could do, and pointed out that Google searches for “iPhone slow” spiked multiple times, just before the release of a new iPhone each time. Read more here.