Back in the day this was even better:
Original Galaxy S battery was getting weak? Order a new battery from Amazon for 13€. Battery arrives, pop the back of the phone off, pull battery out (just like that, no soldering), push new battery in. Push the back of the phone back on, done.
New battery in and it had more mAh than the original one. Despite overclocking that phone it ran a day longer after the replacement.
If the EU has its way we might all get this.
One can hope.
People can babble about water proofing, etc. There is no legitimate engineering problem.
The battery could power the device wirelessly at this point.
They could even claim they're saving the environment by not including the battery after a couple release cycles.
Oof i didn't think of them selling the battery separate possibly with an upcharge. monkeys paw curls
You probably also didn't think about them no longer making the battery two years after releasing the phone.
The battery could power the device wirelessly at this point.
That's not a thing. Wireless charging is horribly inefficient and produces lots of heat, reducing performance and battery life.
Thanks for reminding me of how I used to never worry about battery life cause the moment one got low, I'd just pop a spare out of my backpack and continue on with my day. Batteries were so freaking cheap!
You even had official charging stands that had slots for the extra battery so you could charge everything at once overnight
Lol this post reads like grandma telling her kids about how phones were in her day!
"When I was young, we'd just pop the back off the phone and replace the battery ourselves."
"Yea yea grandma. Let's get you to bed."
I mean they're not wrong tho. This isn't a I walked up hill both ways to school story. Its meant to convey how crappy companies have become with planned obsolescence.
Kid today don't know how bad they have it.
There was an even bigger benefit that most people maybe didn't realise at that time or even now, but when the phone fell that energy got distributed into the parts flying apart, which used to reduce the damage the phone took
That's part of what makes the Noikia 3310 so infamously hard to damage from dropping it, even at extreme heights. It's designed to come apart on impact instead of staying in one piece and taking the full brunt of the impact.
Just buy a Fairphone end enjoy the exact same thing
Fairphone sounds great but currently has a poor price to performance ratio
This makes no sense. How does a working phone "miss a few vitals parts" necessary to replace battery?
there's a channel on YouTube, by louis rossman. you'll find plenty of examples of bs answers from apple tech support in order to make you spend a great deal of money.
~~furthermore, nowhere it talks about "vital parts". So yeah, it makes no sense, but for other reasons.~~
Read your comment twice, now I got what you mean. took me a bit, but you're definitely right.
The genius bar is pretty infamous for largely being staffed by idiots
Well that's because there all college kids. Apple is all about the perception not the reality.
Apple but more effort into designing the aesthetic of the store than they do training the staff.
My best guess is he removed the screws from the phone and maybe they couldn’t service the phone because of that? Wild guess, used to work behind the Genius Bar, but that was almost 15yrs ago. But it sounds like a made up excuse tbh.
They claimed my daughter's phone had a cracked screen and couldn't replace the battery, while showing a picture of the very clearly not cracked screen.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"your phone is missing some parts"
I'm sorry what? Did they fall out when I turned it to the side?
I used to do 3rd party repairs, and it's impossible to describe how fucked up some devices were that came to me from other repair places. Missing screws, shields, screws put back int he wrong places and occasionally they had worked with a bad tech that damaged the mainboard.
It's almost like Apple is incredibly anti-consumer, and go out of their way to make buying a new phone more appealing than trying to repair the one you have
You think Apple is bad, let me tell you about a company named John Deere.
It's not a competition, they can both be shit.
John Deere sure does hate competition
How are they only just now coming to that conclusion.
A screen replacement for an iPhone is like 80% of the price of the new phone. They've been doing this for years now. This isn't a great revelation.
I mean, they own an iPhone to begin with, slow on the uptake is part of the aesthetic
buys iPhone
complains about unreasonable repair costs
You sleep in the bed you make.
I'm honestly glad that Apple products aren't popular in my country.
Thanks for being honest
Happened to my friend. His son dropped his phone one time too many and facial recognition didn't work from them on.
He took the phone to the service center and was told the true depth sensor was broken and would need to be replaced. Cost was 38000 INR to replace when the entire phone cost around 65000 INR.
He said fuck it and came back. After a couple of weeks, it started working on its own.
Genius scamsters, alright.
Apple was shit during the Steve Jobs iphone years, too. Just ask Louis Rossman (used to do mac repair videos on YT, nowadays mostly talks about current computer stuff)
Oh, and the iphone 4 had a "feature" where holding the phone "wrong" made it lose all signal.
“Your iPhone has detected that the replaceable battery you have inserted is not a genuine Apple battery. Please purchase and install only genuine Apple parts. Think Differently”
A little taste of the future even if Apple is forced to make phones with replaceable batteries…
I want to laugh but a licensed Samsung repair shop couldn't repair my phone because I lost the stylus and Samsung licensing requires 100% pass of a test that includes the stylus before returning phones to customer.
Borrowed one from the Verizon shop down the street - gave them my driver license as collateral. Worked out but I was less than pleased with Samsung. They can still have my babies tho.
I work at an AASP and I can 100% guarantee you that's Apple's fault too cause they literally started that practice. It's bullshit.