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>yet a $1000 phone apparently can't scrape by for more than three years due to vendor support The OEMs came up with a simple solution. Make batteries non-repl
by DebtDeflation 6y ago
>yet a $1000 phone apparently can't scrape by for more than three years due to vendor support
The OEMs came up with a simple solution. Make batteries non-replaceable so that given the limited charge/discharge cycle life of a Li-ion the phone becomes almost useless after 2-3 years anyway.
- willis936 6y agoThere’s something else to this story people don’t talk about: write endurance of nand. Phone performance degradation over time can be explained by a combination of (in decreasing outlandishness) TGMLC, nand wearing out, throttling due to battery peak current being lower, and some secret throttling. I haven’t seen nand performance over time discussed or tested. Replaceable batteries might be moot if after two batteries the device was unbearably slow. Consumers would still replace their phones within a few years.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWhule I also hate the status quo, the batteries can still be replaced, in the same way that a car's exhaust can be replaced, you just need to have the tools and skills" or pay a repairshop to do it for you. If the phone still had years of milage, its worth doing