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I think that's just cynicism. Which is just another name for realism. It's not that the law about mandating replaceble battery is bad. But manufacturers will pr
by scotty79 3y ago
I think that's just cynicism. Which is just another name for realism. It's not that the law about mandating replaceble battery is bad. But manufacturers will predictably squeeze every single cent they can. You can expect batteries to be chipped and cost nearly as much as new phones. So the fact that this law was past will be a huge additional profit for manufacturers unless there are some other laws about batteries.
- avidphantasm 3y agoIf everyone has to comply, at some point the manufacturers will have to compete on reparability and parts prices.
- matheusd 3y agoUnless there is a small enough number of them that they can coordinate and all follow the same strategy.
- bayindirh 3y agoI have replaced my iPhone X's battery after 4 years for %12 of its sale price. I had to wait longer than expected because my phone was a first generation device of its model number (Apple does silent internal revisions of the same model over time), so they had to upgrade a power managenent firmware normally not covered by iOS updates. Also, they have changed my speaker free of charge because apparently it was defective or broken in a way I didn't know. After three years, my phone is out of support, with battery health at 90%. Considering my phone is out of support starting this year, this is neither expensive, nor planned obsolescence. I'll save and buy another iPhone (the latest and greatest) in a couple of years, and will use that one for a decade, too. How this is gouging the customer? I support replaceable batteries, that will be great, but current practice is not to make batteries so expensive that people prefer newer phones, on the contrary.
- iefbr14 3y agoYeah, you read my mind :)