Sure, 100%, though that's a separate topic to the ridiculous urban legend that came out of that story. Something still must be done when a user has a degraded battery that can't handle the full draw of the CPU.
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It was literally court decision that led to the Apple implementing switch allowing users to switch their smartphones to unsafe mode.
I still think that Apple was right there by not implementing this switch, and judge was an idiot. But that's just me.