Add this to the ever growing list of reasons to support Right to Repair legislation. Apple isn't doing itself any favors.
Oh you're gonna love it when the EU mandates user replaceable batteries. Back to the case and battery flying apart all across the pavement when you drop it. I remember those days. Do You?
That isn't remotely the worst problem about removable batteries. Yes the batteries and cover and screen go in different directions. But you know what when you put them together they start working again. Unlike other phones I used (not apple) in past which were all in one piece but just died...
Also, you're gonna get a slew of third party, grey-(or straight up black-)market batteries that would put your iPhone at great risk of damage or fire.
Add this to the ever growing list of reasons to support Right to Repair legislation. Apple isn't doing itself any favors.
Oh you're gonna love it when the EU mandates user replaceable batteries. Back to the case and battery flying apart all across the pavement when you drop it. I remember those days. Do You?
That isn't remotely the worst problem about removable batteries. Yes the batteries and cover and screen go in different directions. But you know what when you put them together they start working again. Unlike other phones I used (not apple) in past which were all in one piece but just died...
Also, you're gonna get a slew of third party, grey-(or straight up black-)market batteries that would put your iPhone at great risk of damage or fire.
As a "photographyguy" you're well aware of third party batteries for some of your gear (or should be). How much photo gear are you personally aware of having caught on fire or damaged by a non-OEM battery? I strongly disagree with your claim of "great risk" in using them.
I'm definitely one of the people that got sucked into purchasing a new phone (iPhone 8+) when my OS updated iPhone 6 started being extremely slow. To not know or be informed the reason was an automated trigger for a deficient battery level, only left me one obvious choice...the choice to purchase a new phone. To then be told weeks later the real reason and to only be given a worthless new battery discount for a phone I no longer owned is, at least in my mind, deceitful and very poor customer service.
I've owned dozens of Apple products (Macs, laptops, iPods, monitors, Apple TV, iPads, Apple Watch, and a half dozen iPhones not to mention my family members' iPhones), so I'm not some "ambulance chaser" trying to stick to a rich corporation, but rather disappointed in the company sticking it to their customers and an almost condescending solution. Even this meager $25/user settlement isn't even a tenth of what I had to dish out to purchase a new iPhone.
Look I still love Apple products, but I also have the same iPhone 8+ 3 years later with no intention of getting a new one.
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Also, you're gonna get a slew of third party, grey-(or straight up black-)market batteries that would put your iPhone at great risk of damage or fire.
I've owned dozens of Apple products (Macs, laptops, iPods, monitors, Apple TV, iPads, Apple Watch, and a half dozen iPhones not to mention my family members' iPhones), so I'm not some "ambulance chaser" trying to stick to a rich corporation, but rather disappointed in the company sticking it to their customers and an almost condescending solution. Even this meager $25/user settlement isn't even a tenth of what I had to dish out to purchase a new iPhone.
Look I still love Apple products, but I also have the same iPhone 8+ 3 years later with no intention of getting a new one.