Time Travel: 2014

…

Dong Jiaqi's prediction seemed to be good.

I saw that the direction of the comments under her previous Weibo post gradually changed.

Basically there is no information about black GRAY FOREST.

Instead, they mostly discuss Apple’s mobile phones themselves.

Dong Jiaqi understood the cleverness of the fan group and guided the topic in a direction other than Gray God.

Instead of making Gray God a controversial figure, I have to say that this public relations technique is very clever.

But Apple’s phones don’t seem to be so lucky.

In this case, it directly became the center of controversy in the comments.

Dong Jiaqi noticed that these comments were basically divided into two groups. One group believed that Pingchun's mobile phones had deliberately downclocked the problem, while the other group mainly explained Pingchun's solution.

Among a bunch of comments, Dong Jiaqi even saw this message:

"hw mobile phone came to watch..."

"Mz mobile phone came to watch..."

"..."

Under the watchful eye of a bunch of mobile phone manufacturers, it actually led many people to follow suit, and things seemed to be getting worse.

After a while, a 10,000-story building was built.

Although the 10,000-story building is not as eye-catching as the 200,000-story building posted on Weibo some time ago.

But when it comes to technological product information, such controversial incidents still attract much attention.

It quickly attracted the attention of some other review agencies.

With the entry of various professional teams, things seem to be intensifying.

With the help of these people, Apple seems to be lying on its back for no reason.

But not entirely.

Some people who eat melons do not believe in the idea that those who are clean will self-clean.

On the contrary, more people think that the saying that flies do not bite seamless eggs makes more sense.

In short, under the guidance of public opinion.

Things seem to be evolving towards the trend of "so many people say there is something wrong with Apple, it can't be unreasonable, right?"

Um... Dong Jiaqi doesn't believe it if there is no other party behind it.

But Dong Jiaqi doesn't care what the truth is.

At least the current situation seems to have little to do with GRAY FOREST and Dong Jiaqi himself.

Thinking of this, Dong Jiaqi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

This period just now can be said to be her most nervous moment.

Dong Jiaqi didn't know the other party involved in this matter. How did he face this matter?

Had Gray God not noticed this at all?

This is the calmness of the boss!

…

…

The melancholy fish also breathed a sigh of relief.

As the leader of the Gray God fan group elected by netizens.

At this time, the melancholic swimming fish only felt physically and mentally exhausted.

She originally planned to rest.

However, the original plan was interrupted by the unexpected situation that occurred on Dong Jiaqi's Weibo.

However, Dong Jiaqi has become accustomed to such things since becoming the leader of the Gray God Fan Club.

In addition to organizing a support group, Melancholy's Youyu also posted a lot of messages in his own water friends group.

Asking for help and support from the Gray God.

Fortunately, after some simple processing, things seemed to have finally been settled.

Although something like this disrupted her previous plans.

But she still had no complaints.

She is willing to do whatever she can to help Gray God.

After all, Gray God had helped her unintentionally before and had no intention of receiving any favor from her.

Moreover, Huishen had previously heard her feedback that there were too few paints in the game "Hill Climb Racing" that fit the female aesthetic.

Huishen also updated the game as soon as possible, which is really a favor to fans.

In short, the melancholy fish feels very lucky to be able to do something for the Gray God now.

And the melancholy fish would rather Hui Shen didn't notice it at all.

Gray God is usually so busy.

She didn't want these trivial matters to disturb the Gray God.

As the incident slowly unfolded.

It was hard for Lin Hui not to notice this.

Lin Hui saw the push message from the news client on his mobile phone at 23:30 on the 23rd.

There are various titles such as "Last-generation Apple mobile phones have lags when running casual games" and "Apple deliberately downclocked older models to boost sales."

When he just saw this, Lin Hui was a little confused.

After learning the whole story in detail, Lin Hui was surprised to find that he had such a relationship with the original origin.

Well, Lin Hui didn't know what to say for a moment about such a thing.

Follow the context of news reports.

Lin Hui discovered that what was originally a small matter on Weibo seemed to be escalating little by little.

It's getting more and more intense.

Could this be a repeat of the downscaling scandal?

Lin Hui remembers that the "underclocking scandal" in his previous life originated from a post on Reddit, a well-known foreign forum.

Some users discovered that their iPhone 6's performance scores improved significantly after replacing the battery. They announced the results online, which subsequently sparked heated discussions among users.

John Poole, the developer of the well-known benchmarking software Geekbench, tested this again.

It was found that the frequency of older Apple mobile phones upgraded to iOS 10.2.0 will indeed decrease.

This situation is especially obvious after iOS11.2.

Multiple media and well-known digital experts have verified this again, and finally agreed that the frequency reduction is indeed true.

And further demonstrated that frequency reduction is an important reason for lag in old Apple mobile phones.

In this case, the events gradually fermented and gradually formed the frequency reduction gate event.

Although this incident did not happen on models before the 5S.

But it doesn’t necessarily mean that previous models were not involved in similar incidents.

In fact, there may have been some frequency reduction before the frequency reduction gate incident.

It's just that there is a high probability that it will not be discovered.

And it is common for mobile phones to appropriately reduce frequency.

On the one hand, it may be due to the aging of the battery.

On the other hand, it may come from the impact of the new system upgrade.

These may lead to frequency reduction.

However, Pingchun was deeply involved in it at that time mainly because Pingchun took the initiative to reduce frequency.

Although Junzi has a lot of beautiful words.

However, this matter was still interpreted by the outside world as:

The frequency is deliberately downgraded in order to speed up the replacement of old equipment by users.

To be honest, this interpretation is not wrong.

In reality, it is not just hardware manufacturers who deliberately want users to replace their devices.

Various software manufacturers occupy more and more RAM and ROM.

Isn’t it also an indirect push to encourage users to change devices?

Users are not keen on upgrading their products, so how can manufacturers cut leeks one crop after another?

In fact, frequency reduction is not just about Pingcheng frequency reduction.

It’s hard to say for each mobile phone manufacturer.

Even now...well.

The reason why Apple was noticed most likely was because Apple was the benchmark in the smartphone industry at the time.

In the previous life, Apple also admitted that it had taken the initiative to reduce frequency under external pressure.

In the past life, the uproarious Apple mobile phone frequency reduction scandal brought endless trouble to Pingcheng.

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed in many countries and regions around the world, and a large number of users have collectively attacked Apple.

Lin Hui remembered that Pingchun had to pay about US$500 million to settle the matter.

(ps:...the claim was far more than 500 million US dollars, and the claim was one trillion US dollars, but Apple's market value was only 900 billion US dollars that year)

As for the impact this incident would have on Pingchun in this time and space, Lin Hui didn't know.