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ALAN HENRY2017年10月27日

https://cn.nytstyle.com/technology/20171027/five-tech-myths-people-still-believe/en-us/

誤解四：你的手機運行速度恰好在新款上市前夕變慢，是「計劃性報廢」在作怪

每隔一年左右就會發生這種事：在最新最棒的手機就要上市前，你的手機運行速度突然開始變慢。它或許開始死機，又或許出現應用程序跑得很慢的問題。不管怎樣，如果你了解上述情形，那你或許也能理解一種普遍存在的感受：這全都是科技企業計劃好的，只為迫使你升級手頭的設備——這個小花招就叫「計劃性報廢」。某些特殊情況下的確存在這種問題，不過要是覺得它是所有人的舊手機在新款即將上市時變慢的原因，就把事情看得太簡單了點兒。

Myth 4: “Planned obsolescence” is why your phone slows down right before a new model comes out

It happens every year or so: Just before the latest and greatest phone comes out, your phone suddenly starts running slowly. Maybe it starts freezing, or the apps you use get sluggish. Either way, if you can relate, you can probably also understand the common feeling that this is all a plan by tech companies to force you into upgrading — a trick called “planned obsolescence.” While that’s a real problem in some specific cases, assuming it’s the reason everyone’s old phones get slow before new ones are announced is, well, a bit of an oversimplification.

事實上，沒有什麼陰謀，也不是企業的花招在迫使你入手最新科技產品，或讓你沿著消費主義道路一路狂奔。這只是一個日益進化、日益完善的行業的副產品。廠商推出的那些新手機，有著更大的內存、更好的螢幕、更快的處理器，以及其他一些總體而言你不應該在意的配置——除非開發人員開始圍繞它們完善自己的應用程序。這樣做的時候，他們會針對新設備優化自己的應用程序，你的舊設備則被拋諸腦後。

In reality, it’s not a conspiracy, and it’s not some corporate trick to force you into the newest tech, or trap you on the consumerist treadmill. It’s just a side effect of an ever-evolving and ever-improving industry. As those new phones are released, they come with more memory, better screens, faster processors and other specs that, in general, you shouldn’t care about — unless developers start building their apps around them. When they do, they optimize their apps for the newer devices, leaving your older ones in the dust.

因此，當應用程序得到升級，以便更好地利用新設備的特性時，它們在舊手機上似乎就變慢了。除非開發人員足夠貼心，讓你的舊手機得到適當的支持，否則隨著時間的推移，這個問題會越來越嚴重。最終結果或許同樣令人惱火，但你至少可以寬慰地得知，沒有什麼讓你不斷花錢的驚天陰謀（這裡反正沒有）。

So as apps are updated to make use of all of the features on those new devices, they seem to slow down on older phones. And unless the developers care enough to make sure your older phones are properly supported, the problem only gets worse over time. The annoying end result may be the same, but you can at least rest comfortably knowing there’s no massive conspiracy (here, anyway) to make you keep spending money.