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Apple heavily subsidizes battery replacements for everyone I think the lesson should be to have your battery replacement prices be reasonable to start with and
by bearcobra 8y ago
Apple heavily subsidizes battery replacements for everyone
I think the lesson should be to have your battery replacement prices be reasonable to start with and avoid inflating the market for your devices artificially.
- jdminhbg 8y ago$69 is pretty reasonable to me. The problem isn't that the battery replacement cost was too high, it's that Apple didn't clearly communicate that the problem was a battery issue in the first place. The phones just slowed down without telling you why. The cost subsidies were just a PR move to atone for that.
- heyjudy 8y agoIf I could buy the official or know quality battery part for $25, I'd do it myself.
- bickfordb 8y agoI believe they're ~$20 on Aliexpress?
- general8bitso 8y agoThey said ‘quality’.
- macspoofing 8y agoWould you really stick a $20 AliExpress lithium battery in your phone?
- shaklee3 8y ago$40 isn't bad: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-X-Replacement-Battery/IF377-001-1 https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-X-Replacement-Bat...
- gehwartzen 8y agoI bet even at 29$ Apple is making money on this replacement program. If I can buy an iPhone 7 battery for $15 shipped Apple probably pays <$10 each when buying them by the tens of thousands, even for higher quality units. Then add 10 minutes of replacement labor.
- sbuk 8y agoYou forgot logistics. It costs a lot of money to store and distribute volatile objects.