Why? Most of us don't need it and aren't crying out for it. I honestly have never and will never understand the iMessage dealbreaking thing. I also don't need messages on anything except my phone. It's always by my side.
I didn't say it was a dealbreaker. Definitely not - I use WhatsApp and Textra (for contacts without WhatsApp) and it has been just fine. But I stuck with Apple for several years bc I was afraid to lose iMessage integration.
But it would be nice to have a universal messaging app that works seamlessly across phone, tablet, and laptop, regardless of platform, without resorting to web extensions. I keep hearing WhatsApp is creating an app for iPad but I'm not holding my breath bc IMO Apple will probably never allow it to come to fruition. They make a load of $$$ off users who are terrified of losing iMessage.
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I think your Apple bias affects your reading comprehension.
Apple throttled iPhones because the batteries were substandard. Other phone manufacturers did not do this with older phones. Then Apple admitted they would do the same thing with new iphones last year that included the then current model iphone 7. All of this is well documented and discussed here on MR a gazillion times.
The batteries degraded faster than normal and had defects. Then to compensate Apple slowed the phones down.
Why did they do this? Because the battery could not provide enough power to keep the phone running and it would shutdown!!! To compensate for the bad batteries they throttled the phones.
This only affected the iphones 6 and 6s models. They even offered batter replacements as a result.
All batteries degrade over time. Then instead of lasting all day they only last a few hours instead. We have all been through that with our phones. But with certain iphones....the batteries did not just degrade...but would instead shutdown the phone. That is why Apple throttled them. Mostly starting with the models 6 and 6s becasue they went to new battery technology with the bigger phones.
Again if this was a software issue...they would have immediately pushed out a update and been done with the whole thing. Instead they are replacing batteries at a cost most estimates say is in the 100s of millions dollars.
I am interested how Note 8 battery holds up as I move into second year use. My iPhones 6 Plus and forward have all developed battery issues and/or major performance slowdown at about a year. This was a known phenomenon and someone finally investigated and defined the problem. Only then did Apple acknowledge the problem. We paid full price to replace our daughter's 6s battery at one year and then did the $29 replace about 6 months ago. She is now a few months later having battery problems and random freezing/reboots. I don't know if it's software or battery issue.
I read somewhere that Samsung has guaranteed <5% battery performance degradation for 2 years on the Note 8. If so, that's good enough for me bc I will want a new device for sure after 2 years anyway. But then again, what does a Samsung guarantee entail?
