Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries
Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries
The European Union is working on legislation that would require smartphone design to have easily replaceable batteries, but we doubt Apple would agree willingly.
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So glad to see the Apple fans here aren't a bunch of blind yesmen. With an R&D budget the size of Apple's I am sure theres a way to figure somwthing out.
Especially since waterproof phones with replaceable batteries already existed. They aren't exactly working from nothing.
I remember dunking my flip phone into glasses of water as a party trick and it was totally fine. This would've been around 2010 or so.
They exist but not at this thinness. That’s an important difference.
I don't think anybody really cares about an extra half millimetre of thickness, especially if it means that you can save hundreds in replacement costs and extend its life by a few years. Nobody's buying an iPhone and busting out the calipers to compare it to their previous phone.
I care. This thing’s already thick and heavy enough, and I don’t particularly care about popping the back off my phone to replace a battery. It’s like…once every two years that I have to replace it.
Apple’s sales fall and people don’t buy new phones because “it looks just like last year’s phone.”
There are so many things a company can change about a phone besides its thickness.
You also start running into usability issues. There's only so thin a phone can be before it's less of a phone, and more of a blade that'll bend if you sneeze at it wrong.
Happened with the iPhone 6
Really refreshing to see Apple fans who have not forgotten they are consumers who have features they want as opposed to accepting whatever decision is made for them.
Other site was a weird mix of people who seemed less Apple consumers and shared more in common with Apple shareholders with the lengths they'd go to defend things from Apple's financial point of view.
Indeed, I personally consider myself an apple fan but there are definitely things that are bad. People who think apple has done only good and defend them at all time are just imo thr worst.
use 3M's post-it note glue.
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