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Daring Fireball Apple Addresses Why Some iPhones With Older Batteries

I always found the argument that Apple purposely slows down phones ridiculous, turns out they are, to some degree, but it’s to improve device longevity. As Gruber puts it: If older iPhones suffer upon being updated to iOS 7 — getting slower, or worse battery life, or losing Wi-Fi — to such a degree that the users conclude they now need to buy a new phone, would not the most likely and logical result be that it would inspire many of them to switch to Android (or Windows Phone, or anything) rather than to buy another iPhone?

Spent The Evening Trying To Get The 60 10 Gb

Spent the evening trying to get the $60, 10 GB deal from Fido tonight. After an hour waiting in the store, I decided to give up and go back tomorrow morning to try again. Fido’s systems are completely hosed right now. Their website, phone lines, and apparently even their internal systems are slow or offline completely.

RT @PlannerSean: That the carriers are being hammered with calls by customers to get the 10GB/$60 deal (I’ve heard that several/most of the…

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