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• stupid (Score:4, Informative)

  by sectokia ( 3999401 ) writes: on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:13PM (#60344857)

  Why do apple get attacked over this? They go out of there way to keep the phone running and even offer a decent battery replacement service. I got 4 years from my 4, then 4 from my 6. So no reason why my XR wonâ(TM)t get 4 as well. What they did stops your phone turning off when you have an old battery are low on charge and attempting to draw high current…. Wish idiots would stop this constant attack against them over this which has been going on for years and years now, seemingly by people who never even owned or use the phones.

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  • Re: stupid (Score:2)

    by Bearhouse ( 1034238 ) writes:

    Well, I’ve had every generation of iPhone, (although the most recent ones were imposed on me by my various clients, who did not like Android security) and generally they’re great products, if our course overpriced.
    What I don’t understand is how my old iPhones and iPads – which I have replaced the batteries in – have become painfully slow and unresponsive, whereas they used to be wonderfully fluid.
    It’s not like they’re getting the latest updates either, so I think they is some legs in the this case.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by SirAstral ( 1349985 ) writes:

      Yes, the case has legs. While “planned obsolescence” is legal in the USA there are still laws against sabotage of products, even if you so-called “own” them.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by sims 2 ( 994794 ) writes:

    Because they did it without telling anyone.

    That way you would assume your phone was an old slow piece of shit and buy a new one instead of having the battery replaced.

    If the phone had displayed a message anywhere with something like “battery capacity low, system will run at reduced speeds to compensate”.

    No one would have had a problem with it.

    • • Re: (Score:2)

        by dgatwood ( 11270 ) writes:

        Because it shifts the cost of repairs from Apple to the owner. Had Apple told the owners immediately, most would have insisted that Apple replace the bad batteries, assuming that the devices were still in warranty. By not telling the owners, most would assume that their performance problems were caused by operating system bloat, and would not realize that it could be easily fixed until their batteries completely failed, by which time it would often be too late to get their devices repaired for free under

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by fluffernutter ( 1411889 ) writes:

          While you’re on that subject, it would have been nice if they told us the butterfly keyboards were fucked, or that the laptop lid cuts through the LCD cable over time. Or that they had pretty much planned for us to head back to the Apple store the instant ours was out of warranty.
  • Because we live in a country… (Score:2)

    by AmazingRuss ( 555076 ) writes:

    ... full of willfully ignorant, magical thinking morons.
• It’s a “dry” heat (Score:2)

  by DesertNomad ( 885798 ) writes:

  Arizonan here. I see so many people leaving their phones in direct sun, it surprises me that the phones last as long as they do. I have a 4-1/2 year old iPhone 64GB 6s, for which I changed out the battery about 2 years ago, and it continues to plug along fine. The biggest challenge is that the phone has run out of memory and I’ve had to delete bloated apps, one of which was a game and slowly consumed 11 GB of memory…
• good and bad (Score:2)

  by aRTeeNLCH ( 6256058 ) writes:

  It is good, perhaps even excellent, engineering, when the phone is throttled to avoid a hard crash. It is inexcusable if the phone doesn’t run at full speed when plugged into a proper power source. Either it’s bad engineering by design, to mislead the customer, or it is bad engineering out of carelessness. For a company with the resources of Apple I don’t see any excuse.

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