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After it was revealed in late 2017 that Apple intentionally slows down the performance of older iPhones when their batteries deteriorate, people freaked. There were explanations, recriminations, apologies, lawsuits, and, finally, solutions.   But in the wake of that specific controversy, a question arose: Does this happen to Android phones, too?   For the most part, the answer seems to be no. While the nature of and Android ecosystem -- with its hundreds of manufacturers, all using different chips and software layers -- makes a comprehensive investigation difficult, there's evidence that suggest Android vendors slowing down older phones because of old batteries isn't a thing.   For starters, several major companies, like Samsung and Motorola, declared that they simply don't do it. But there's a more reliable way to check, and that's by going to the same set of data that exposed the iPhone issue: Checking the benchmark scores of older Android phones to see if there are enough of them gett