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Anyone have any explanation for why the different color iPhones (gold vs silver) would have different batteries?

• sjwright 13y ago
  Redundancy of supply. It would be insane for Apple's supply chain to be halted because the supplier of one part failed to deliver for whatever reason. Nearly every major and minor component in an iPhone would be second-sourced, else they'd need to accumulate a month's supply of that part in a warehouse... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source It's the same reason MacBooks can ship with displays from either Samsung or LG, with SSDs from either Samsung or Toshiba. It's pretty much a lottery, and you won't know which till you run About This Mac.
  • jng 13y ago
    I don't see the name of the manufacturer for the display or SSD in "About this Mac". Am I missing something?
    • dijit 13y ago
      hit the 'System Report' button.
• InclinedPlane 13y ago
  Be careful of making eroneous conclusions. It's likely that the same model of iPhone contain different makes of batteries, but since iFixit only had one of each any such variance would appear as a variance between colors.