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Battery has DRM now, wow.

• sokoloff 4y ago
  Battery has an identifier which, if mismatched, causes the phone to work but present a warning that the battery may not be genuine and does not report battery health. Honestly, that sounds pretty fair/reasonable to me. (It would be outrageous if it had “DRM fail: phone shuts off”. “DRM detects possible non-genuine battery and works but reports battery as possibly non-genuine” is a lot more reasonable, possibly totally reasonable.)
  • ezconnect 4y ago
    Acts like a DRM to me. Changing battery now needs internet connection? A remote system to control your phone just to tell it to function normally after changing battery? Next on the horizon is we need to plugin our peanut butter to an internet connection so we can open it to eat it.
    • cyral 4y ago
      I'm sure it has something to do with their liability. With no warning, shops would be incentivized to use cheap knock-off batteries. (Which could perform worse, explode, etc. and damage their brand)