The shocking reason why Apple is deliberately slowing down your old iPhone

2Software upgrades could be intentionally slowing down old iPhones

The Harvard study by PhD student Laura Trucco claims that Apple is intentionally sabotaging its own products. Harvard Professor of economics, Stendhal Mullainathan wrote in the New York Times that the results were striking. He said “Wouldn't many business owners love to make their old product less useful whenever they released a newer one? When you sell the device and control the operating system, that's an option'. Several users now feel that Apple sabotages older phones through software updates. As one reader in a news daily stated 'If you want to keep your iPhone running at the same pace do not do the software upgrade that comes out within six months of a new iPhone release. 

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3Apple is brainwashing consumers says NY Times contributor

Catherine Rampell writing in the New York Times also expressed concerns that Apple was engineering their operating systems to work well only with latest releases. She too found that her iPhone 4 worked a lot slower after downloading iOS7 and that the only remedial solution was to purchase an iPhone 5. She even accused the company for a lack of marketing ideas by attempting to brainwash users into purchasing their latest releases. Apple has been accused of such unscrupulous practices before when it introduced tamper proof screws which experts said was done to prevent users accessing the phone for their own repairs. 

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