Sally Helm

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385 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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Throughline · The lightbulb conspiracy is both real and everywhere · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

We're actually doing this for your own good.

We're not breaking the phone.

We're not trying to shorten its lifespan.

But if we slow down some older phones, they don't crash as much.

We're sorry we didn't mention it.

And Apple offers a cheap battery replacement to sort of sweeten the apology.

Well, I mean, this kind of sounds like planned obsolescence, modern-day Phoebus.

I mean, look, Apple totally denies that they were doing this to drive upgrades.

But if you believe that Apple slowed down older phones in order to make people buy an expensive new phone, then, yeah, that would be a perfect example of planned obsolescence.

And the thing is, we don't really know if that's true.

And, you know, I mean, Apple has a reasonable case to make about why they did what they did.

However, I think we can say for 100% sure that Apple is a modern master of a different type of obsolescence, Alfred Sloan-style psychological obsolescence.

So we designed a new cooling system.

I have to admit, for a long time, I was a sucker for this.

I feel like when we find ourselves wanting these new phones, like really wanting them, like feeling like we almost need them, it's really tempting to think there's a sinister plot behind this.

Totally.

Yeah.

Like, you know, we imagine that there's someone pulling the strings, right?

Like some mustache twirling person in a back room or something.

Exactly.

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