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๐คฆโโ๏ธ Google isn't making your shit slow. Jesus Christ people. Format the device and buy a new battery. The phone will work fine.
I've been repeatedly surprised by how much a new battery boosts performance. I don't quite understand why this is the case. I would think that at full power you'd get full performance even with a battery degraded to 70-80%. What exactly is going on with bad batteries?
Sadly best I have are posts by people claiming to have worked for HMD Global, talking about planned obsolescence by slowing down the phones intentionally. While I'm not really sure Google is doing it too, the experiments with old wiped android devices seem to point that way.
I'd be willing to at least consider that for other companies, but not Google. As far as I know, they still make more money from advertising than selling hardware. Pretty sure they're just selling the hardware as a vehicle to transport more data.
So there's no real motivation for them to risk compromising the PR on doing something like this - especially after just hearing that they've extended updates for Chromebooks to 10 years.
Those are just my thoughts on it.
So made up bullshit. Understood ๐.