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Other Is a $29 battery replacement enough?
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Sure, but if they survive the year, they can expect big business replacing broken iPhone 8/X backs.
Maybe apple can make an update to check to see if the power resource can consistently draw a specific amount of power instead of checking the health of the battery that way you could use a battery pack or just leave your phone plugged in if you'd rather not get your battery swapped out.
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Nah, I want a new battery. I can't stand battery cases or plugs
Yeah I suppose it's too late for that but maybe if they implemented that logic they could've sold more apple battery cases lol.
You think Samsung isn't under a microscope with regards to battery issues? It's been a few days now since news of throttlegate, I'm sure some Apple super fan would have found evidence of other brands having sudden shutdowns with old batteries if it existed
I honestly was under the impression that the older an android phone gets it generally gets buggier and a poor user experience. This is based on comments from anti iphone/android users I'm around.
All I am suggesting is that Apple should have been up front about it.
Throttling your CPU is not what people think when someone says "We fixed the battery issues".
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I would prefer to know what their proposed solution was to begin with so I could make a choice.
Not find out afterwards that throttling the CPU was the choice they made for me.
Stop it. The biggest company in the world doesn't need deceptive practices to be successful.
I did a web search for nexus 6p battery problem and the issue is from defective batteries, not old batteries.
Yet they do it anyway.
It fixes nothing—I bought a new iphone ONLY because I thought that my iphone 6 was dead. Had they been upfront about the updates' relation to battery performance I would have known that all I needed was an $80 battery change instead of buying a new phone! It's not like they will reimburse me $600 price difference. Apple is shady.
That definitely sucks.
Question, if you were able to get a full refund for your phone would you go back to your 6 and just upgrade the battery? Would you have to think about it?
Only $29 for a year and then it goes back to regular price is a joke. They should do it permanently if they keep doing this with the cpus.
Is apple going to replace it at that price IF they test the battery and they state that its not below 80%? Independent repair guy will replace no matter what
No, they don’t. That’s the point you’re missing.
Conspiracy theories work when discussing small to medium companies in desperate trouble. Not the world’s biggest company that is healthy as can be. None of the top executives at Apple would risk doing hard time in a federal prison for the type of crime you are accusing them of.
The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
This made me smile haha
If there is nothing there as you suggest, why has any lawsuit against Apple proceeeded at all?
Maybe their shadiness does not rise to a penalty of incarceration but it certainly rises to levels of justified financial compensation.
It's not shady unless it puts someone in jail?
First, if you walk into an Apple Store tomorrow I am positive they will reimburse you for the phone you bought under these circumstances that apparently confused you, get you back in an iPhone 6 by lunchtime.
Second, I have no idea why you think a tiny battery for a product used heavily every day and charged multiple times per day would last you more than two years before losing capability. There are thousands of mall kiosks across the country providing battery replacement services for millions of people each month. You didn’t notice?
Apple gets its way again. Putting 3rd party repair shops out of business was always a goal.
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Not that simple. Gotta go through the backup and restore process which for some could take forever. Quite a hassle.
umm it's maybe 3 hours max and that's if something goes wrong. People do it all the time.
Wait is this a serious comment?
Guess Apple will place better battery from now on. They dont want to go through all the hassle again i guess.
Frivolous class-action lawsuits get filed every day, my company got hit with six of them a year for absolutely no reason other than to extort a quick settlement.
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