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I wonder how reliable this will be. Back in the summer, my mom plugged her iPhone in to charge, and it gave a warning saying that it couldn't charge because th
by Tommah 3y ago
I wonder how reliable this will be. Back in the summer, my mom plugged her iPhone in to charge, and it gave a warning saying that it couldn't charge because there was liquid in the charging port. However, the port was bone-dry, and there was no liquid anywhere near the phone. It turned out that the charger didn't like the extension cord that it was plugged into. I took the extension cord away, and the phone started charging.
- chii 3y ago[flagged]
- shepherdjerred 3y agohttps://support.apple.com/en-us/108068 https://support.apple.com/en-us/108068
- michaelmrose 3y agoThis seems like fake outrage at a restriction that exists only in a hypothetical that nobody on earth would ever implement if for no other reason than the fact that it would be incredibly hard and complicated. If some future despot actually wanted to forbid dirty power wouldn't they just do that instead of making your phone not charge?
- userbinator 3y agoA lot of people said the same things about DRM and many other predictions that turned out to be true.
- LadyCailin 3y agoAnd how many predictions turned out to be false?
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- Analemma_ 3y agoThis is one of the most ludicrous non sequiturs I've ever heard. DRM exists, therefore any minute now it's going to be illegal to charge your phone using power from fossil fuels? What thru-line of logic is this? (Also, your basic claim is false. Who ever said DRM was never going to exist? That would have been an absurd claim to make at any time. Long before personal computers or the internet, the music industry was already trying to make cassette tapes illegal because they facilitated home recording. It was a no-brainer that they would attempt to extend this same control into the digital realm)
- scarface_74 3y agoNo one ever said that about DRM. There has been analog right protections for media sense Macrovision in the 80s
- DonHopkins 3y agoHis complaint sounds just like the hysterical right wing conspiracy theories about "15 minute cities" being a government plot to imprison people in their homes. Those right wing lunatics always love to play the victim like that. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-03/15-minute-cities-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-controversial https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-03/15-minute...
- kmeisthax 3y agoI really hate this idea that any and all attempts to save electricity and/or reduce carbon footprint exist purely to inconvenience you and you alone as much as possible. I don't even feel like it deserves to be called a conspiracy theory. It's just dumb.
- mmis1000 3y agoSony has this like forever. And in my opinion, it works really well. It only trigger when I use my wet hand to hold it or when I wash it(you know, sony smartphone is well known for overheat). It never trigger for other reason for the entire period I am using it.
- izacus 3y agoThey'll save money on warranty repairs in that case - by blaming your mom for a water spill - so it'll all work out for them. It's not even a new trick, some scammy repair companies here in Europe loved to claim water damage to avoid warranty repairs.
- astrange 3y agoThere are tabs inside the device that change color on water intrusion for that.
- chris_wot 3y agoWhich also change colour due to humidity changes.
- lostlogin 3y ago… which is water. It’s actually impressive how resilient phones are.
- winrid 3y agoTrue, but regular water rarely harms circuit boards for a one time exposure. Salt water, or soda, on the other hand... What Apple really needs is a USBC taste tester :)
- HPsquared 3y agoMaybe they could use some kind of "corrosion canary"... some piece of metal that will behave like the circuit components in a standard way.
- izacus 3y agoTurns out it's impossible to prove what state those water tabs were in before the device was opened by a technitian in the back room ;)
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- wirrbel 3y agoThe lightning port detection of "liquids" in my old iphone was never once right.
- commandar 3y agoI have a wall charger that triggers the liquid detection on my Samsung phone if the charger has gotten tugged partially out of the outlet. I use the same charger literally every night and it works fine. I'm incredibly leery of this functionality being used to deny warranty claims as a result.