Yes, We Re Slowing Down Older Iphones By Ivana Volti's Analysis
I feel that the main point of this reading was about explaining what technology really is and the many different perspectives that it can be looked at. Before Volti goes into depth and really breaks down the many different aspects of technology, he first provides a definition of this. The definition he gives is that technology consisted of "the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science." In chapter one, Volti explains at the beginning of the reading the early perspectives of how technology was seen, which was as tools to help humans do things that would be otherwise impossible to do. And now in today's world, it is seen as that and a way to help do/make things
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The article I found is titled, "Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones" by Ivana Kottasová. What this article talks about is how Apple was pushing out software updates, it was causing older IPhone versions to become slower in an effort to save the batteries in them from suddenly dying and leading to the IPhone to suddenly dying. Once this was released to the public, the public started to become in an uproar about this and got enraged that apple would make older IPhones suffer and not the newer ones. How this article relates to this week's reading is because as you can see, there seem to be winners and loser in this situation. The technological advancement in this situation is the software updates that is pushed out by Apple. The winners in this situation are the people that have newer IPhone versions. They are downloading the new updates and they are fine and are enjoying their IPhones with the updated software. The losers in this situation are the people with the older IPhone versions. They are suffering because when they are downloading the update, their IPhones are actually becoming slower and making it harder to work with it. In today's world, we are all moving at a fast pace. So, having a slower IPhone is not what the people want in their pockets. Now Apple has a lot of upset customers and have to do something about, which will most likely be an update to resolve the
The article I found is titled, "Apple: Yes, we're slowing down older iPhones" by Ivana Kottasová. What this article talks about is how Apple was pushing out software updates, it was causing older IPhone versions to become slower in an effort to save the batteries in them from suddenly dying and leading to the IPhone to suddenly dying. Once this was released to the public, the public started to become in an uproar about this and got enraged that apple would make older IPhones suffer and not the newer ones. How this article relates to this week's reading is because as you can see, there seem to be winners and loser in this situation. The technological advancement in this situation is the software updates that is pushed out by Apple. The winners in this situation are the people that have newer IPhone versions. They are downloading the new updates and they are fine and are enjoying their IPhones with the updated software. The losers in this situation are the people with the older IPhone versions. They are suffering because when they are downloading the update, their IPhones are actually becoming slower and making it harder to work with it. In today's world, we are all moving at a fast pace. So, having a slower IPhone is not what the people want in their pockets. Now Apple has a lot of upset customers and have to do something about, which will most likely be an update to resolve the