Apple: Turn off the battery life indicator.
Remember the iPhone (you're holding it wrong) 4?
Apple's reaction to this elementary antenna design flaw was to fiddle with the signal strength indicator software, rendering it more deceptive and thus inherently less useful.
Do you suppose they're doing something similar here?
Instead of providing simple and accurate battery information, perhaps they're applying psychology to herd their users towards a certain behavior. In this case, stop abusing the battery.
I'm sure that they'll fix this flaw with a location sensitive battery indicator, to allow Consumer Reports to get a nice test result. Provided that they don't stray outside the boundaries of their lab property. LOL...
Reminds me of VW.
Speculation...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
