Apple Users

Re "slowing down older phones" ... this was an engineering fix to keep the phone from crashing when an aging battery couldn't deliver enough juice for peak demand. The problem here was lack of communication (to customers and sales) about what was happening. It wasn't an evil plot by marketing to sell more phones.

So ... "secretly throttled to conserve battery life" is just not true. They slowed it down to keep it from crashing and then Apple dropped the ball and forgot to tell people about the fix.

Note they *still* slow down older phones, it's just now there is a display [Battery in the Settings app] that tells you about it.