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World Business Report: First broadcast 2017/12/21 22:32 GMT: Apple Admits to Slowing Down iPhones

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Apple Admits to Slowing Down iPhones

First broadcast 2017/12/21 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2017/12/21 22:32 GMT: Apple Admits to Slowing Down iPhones

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Apple Admits to Slowing Down iPhones

Older iPhones are made to run more slowly to stop the battery failing too quickly.

Apple confirms the suspicions of many iPhone users by revealing that they deliberately impair the performance of older models, in order to stop the battery from running out too quickly. Technology journalist Rupert Goodwins explains how this came to light. British Prime Minister, Theresa May, begins an official visit to Poland against a backdrop of souring relations with the EU. The BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw tells us she'll be looking to reassure Polish businesses about future trade relations with post-Brexit Britain. Also in this edition, we hear that the hit US musical Hamilton is setting up for its opening night in London, how the crypto-currency craze is gripping Singapore and why hundreds of thousands of dollars are changing hands at a goat auction in Kenya. 
(Photo: An iPhone 5c. Credit: Getty Images)

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