I use biometrics for apps and such, but not my phone. Having worked apple support, the number of people who only used their fingerprint and their phone was restarted for whatever reason leading them to have to know their password, which they forgot… is numerous.

So this is why I’m bad at drawing. I have 954 more drawings to go!

They were literally fined for this. If you had taken a fraction of the time to search that you did writing the response, you’d have found it.

Beyond that, instead of slowing the phone down, they could just make the battery replaceable. And yes, android phones have largely moved away from replaceable batteries as well, but that doesn’t change anything.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

I’m talking replacing parts and not entire laptops. Which there are plenty that allow this. Macs no longer do.

I can’t speak for Apple quality. But they aren’t environmentally friendly. Batteries can’t be swapped out in newer laptops, and they tend to try and force their customers to always be upgrading. Their updates that intentionally slowed older devices for example.