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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Wouldn't be entirely surprising if the older devices were being somewhat software throttled to entice you to buy new? Didn't apple get busted for something like that? Think their excuse was they were slowing the device to preserve battery life?
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Software throttling to force people to buy new and what Apple did are two completely different things.
Apple was throttling the processors in iPhones once their batteries had degraded to a certain point and the phone experienced an unexpected shutdown because of the battery degradation. Mine was around 83% in my SE when it first happened, and if I decided to undo the throttling, the phone's battery life suffered for it since... y'know, the battery is almost 20% toast.
In newer versions of iOS (after everyone went mental about it), you can revert the throttling after it is applied if you so desire. But they also provided a cheaper replacement cost for iPhone batteries because of the outcry, so that's not too bad. I know it's cool to hate on Apple for it, but it really does make sense. By allowing the phone to throttle itself, it actually extends the usable life of the device at the cost of some performance.
As for the other scenario, just one person finds out and you have a class action lawsuit on your hands. The reality is that -- over time -- software gets bloated. There's code in there to support legacy implementations, new features, more stuff being done in the background. Windows 3.1 came on six 1.44MB floppy disks. Windows XP came on a 6xx MB CD-ROM. Windows 7 and later all come on a single-layer DVD around 4.3x GB. But Windows 7 took around 10 GB of disk space once installed and Windows 10 takes double that at 20 GB.
Barring some really awesome software and driver optimizations, newer software almost always has higher system requirements because it tends to do more stuff and usually brings legacy code with it. It's probably the biggest challenge Microsoft has with Windows 10... legacy support for applications that some of their biggest enterprise and government customers need to run.
So while it's a fun conspiracy theory, it just isn't likely in the majority of cases.