That excuse by apple (it was so old!) is nonsense; Li-ion batteries should not degrade nearly as quickly as they did during the whole apple-battery saga (less t

That excuse by apple (it was so old!) is nonsense; Li-ion batteries should not degrade nearly as quickly as they did during the whole apple-battery saga (less than a year to less than half capacity sometimes!) Clearly apple had a design defect (whether in its use of the battery or in the battery itself), and equally clearly apple didn't admit it until the public uproar was significant. The timeline of the whole thing involved a whole series of phones only a little more than a year old, and by that point there had already been a bunch of grumbling online. Anecdotally, the situation has improved in those I know, but the batteries still degrade more quickly than those in similarly-priced android phones or windows laptops. But perhaps that's just sampling bias. In any case - the issue is not huge now, but it was a real issue a few years back, and apple tried to cover it up, which pisses me off to this day. Yay for screwing over your customers, and not offering refunds or repairs under reasonable terms until the public outcry is huge: i.e. they certainly will screw you over to cover their collective ass if they can get away with it. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate talks of sept/oct 2015 phones and apples dec 2016 response; so: not old phones.