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I think the outrage is a bit excessive. People buy apple phones because they want all the technical details abstracted away and they don't want to have to make

I think the outrage is a bit excessive. People buy apple phones because they want all the technical details abstracted away and they don't want to have to make the decisions on things like the tradeoff between clock speed and battery life. That's Apple's selling point in a way, making technology accessible. If you want to tune your core voltages then isn't that what Android is for?

glenstein 9y ago
That only works because Apple has been so good at executing technical details in a way that benefits the consumer. Everything just works. When it starts not just-working, that shows up in the experience with the device, and it no longer makes sense to tell people they shouldn't be asking questions.
slantyyz 9y ago
Not that excessive, imo. When you pay a lot of money for a high performance phone (which is what all iPhones are when they're released), you also expect it to perform accordingly for a reasonable amount of time.
sasmithjr 9y ago
People aren't upset because they cannot tune the voltage themselves; they're upset because of a lack of communication. You cannot make informed purchasing decisions if manufacturers are hiding this kind of information from you. How many people bought a new iPhone due to degraded performance when a new battery would have fixed it right up? People didn't have the information to make that choice, and I believe that's what's upsetting at least some people.
sweden 9y ago
I actually think that the outrage is not enough, this problem wouldn't even happen if people were able to easily swap batteries like everyone did 10 years ago. Wasn't it obvious to Apple that batteries start to suffer from degradation over time? Wasn't it obvious that the solution to this was the replacement of batteries? If so, why didn't they implement a replaceable battery?

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I think the outrage is a bit excessive. People buy apple phones because they want all the technical details abstracted away and they don't want to have to make

by mediocrejoker 9y ago

glenstein 9y ago
That only works because Apple has been so good at executing technical details in a way that benefits the consumer. Everything just works. When it starts not just-working, that shows up in the experience with the device, and it no longer makes sense to tell people they shouldn't be asking questions.
slantyyz 9y ago
Not that excessive, imo. When you pay a lot of money for a high performance phone (which is what all iPhones are when they're released), you also expect it to perform accordingly for a reasonable amount of time.
sasmithjr 9y ago
People aren't upset because they cannot tune the voltage themselves; they're upset because of a lack of communication. You cannot make informed purchasing decisions if manufacturers are hiding this kind of information from you. How many people bought a new iPhone due to degraded performance when a new battery would have fixed it right up? People didn't have the information to make that choice, and I believe that's what's upsetting at least some people.
sweden 9y ago
I actually think that the outrage is not enough, this problem wouldn't even happen if people were able to easily swap batteries like everyone did 10 years ago. Wasn't it obvious to Apple that batteries start to suffer from degradation over time? Wasn't it obvious that the solution to this was the replacement of batteries? If so, why didn't they implement a replaceable battery?