• TheOtherKundotron
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    1011 months ago

    The Apple argument is ridiculous. They are making phones for how many years? Over 10. Yet, their engineers have not figured out a solution to have a removable battery and have it waterproof? Give me a break. Apple is greedy as fuck, but that’s not a news.

  • @bemenaker
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    711 months ago

    Hahahahhahahahah

    Deep breath

    Hahahahhahahahahahaha

    Since when did Apple do comedy?

  • @Solumbran
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    411 months ago

    So a company that loves making phones obsolete just to force people to buy more, doesn’t like reparability? Who could have guessed…

  • @reddig33
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    411 months ago

    Apple is making the wrong argument here. They already make an external battery pack that attaches magnetically. They also already offer battery replacement by a tech through service. They should be pointing at that, rather than saying they can’t figure out a way to redesign their phone.

    I’m honestly amazed their PR people couldn’t spin it better. Truth be told, if it gets legislated then they’ll figure out a way to do it, or will make some design compromises. It won’t be the end of the world.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    What they mean to say is

    A potential failure point in our business model

    Which of course, is planned obsolescence.

  • @Eheran
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    311 months ago

    Yes and it is super risky and people will get killed. We have heard all the lies. They make up whatever suits them at the moment. Louis Rossmann can tell you one… perhaps even two stories about Apples bullshit.

  • @Solumbran
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    211 months ago

    So a company that loves making phones obsolete just to force people to buy more, doesn’t like reparability? Who could have guessed…

  • @Geek_King
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    211 months ago

    Yes, failure points, like longevity due to user replaceable batteries meaning the phone could be kept and used longer. That’s just a failure point when you consider the end goal of giving people reasons to buy new phones more frequently than they otherwise would.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 months ago

    Yet, my 8 year old phone with a tool-free replaceable battery is working just fine.

    It’s almost like they’re full of shit.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 months ago

    Bullshit. My lgg3 is sitting right here next to me on the headboard, serving me quite well as an alarm clock, white noise generator (when needed), and nighttime notepad.

    The only thing that failed on it is the sd card slot after it got dropped for the twentieth odd time.