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Apple could have just implemented replaceable batteries and all this situation could have been avoided. Edit: When I mean replaceable, I mean replaceable batte
by sweden 9y ago
Apple could have just implemented replaceable batteries and all this situation could have been avoided.
Edit: When I mean replaceable, I mean replaceable batteries without the user having to go an Apple store. Like in the old days, taking the cover off and putting the new battery back in.
- ghshephard 9y agoApple batteries are replaceable. $79 and an hour at the Apple store will do the job. If you want to save money you can get it done at a third-party shop for less than $50. Where Apple made a mistake was in not communicating to its users that this is something they need to do on an annual basis, so people could budget it in to their cost.
- beamatronic 9y agoThe hour at the Apple Store is the deal breaker. My time is too valuable for that.
- mehrdada 9y agoThen you can afford iPhone upgrade annually.
- mewse 9y agoYou don't have to spend the hour at the Apple Store. You drop the phone off, leave, and come back at literally any time more than 1 hour later. Go to your important meeting. Do some shopping. Have that doctor's appointment you've been putting off. Have a nice long lunch. Whatever. You don't actually lose that hour. I mean, obviously.
- rmwaite 9y agoI love Apple products. Every major computing device I use is made by them. I am lucky to be closer than the vast majority of people to an Apple store and even for me this is a huge pain in the ass. I think it is incredibly unreasonable to just hand wave this away like its no big deal. It absolutely is and to pretend otherwise is naive at best.
- covercash 9y agoThey are replaceable... for $79. Which is probably close to what they would have charged for additional batteries if they had gone with a hot swap design. Actually, I bet they’d sell a $79 normal and $129 extended ‘pro’ version.
- sigzero 9y agoAverage Joe wouldn't know it was a battery issue making their phone shutdown. Oh, and batteries ARE replaceable.
- sydd 9y agoEasily replaceable. Like it was before smartphones. Your device has either a shit design or or are deliberately trying to rip people off if you need to go to a specialist to replace a damn battery. Also my laptop from 6 years ago can show the battery health in percent, such technology is not magic.
- ScottBurson 9y agoThere have been plenty of smartphones with replaceable batteries. It's just in the last couple of years that everyone has given up on them. I'm still using a Galaxy Note 4 with a replaceable battery. I haven't replaced it yet, but just a few weeks ago I had to pull the battery to get the phone out of a reboot loop. (That was the first time I had seen that with this phone.) If I hadn't been able to remove the battery, I would have have had to wait for the phone to drain it completely and shut off.
- xenadu02 9y agoA swappable battery requires physical containment on both the battery and the socket that adds weight and eats up volume that could otherwise be used for more battery.
- visarga 9y agoI am sure the Apple geniuses could have invented a clip-on battery that takes almost no extra space at all. I bet they wanted to make these phones obsolete after 2 years to force us to buy more.
- umanwizard 9y agoIf you're so sure this is possible, design a better phone and get rich.
- visarga 9y agoThen it must be better for Apple to cripple old phones. /s
- specialist 9y agoI prefer built-in (integrated) batteries.
- alkonaut 9y agoIf they sold a version that had replacable battery and the current one I'm not even sure I'd get the replacable one if it was worse sealed. I replace for $39 after warranty is expired which is pretty much nothing.