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AppleInsider said:

On August 13, Epic, developer of the wildly popular battle-royale game Fortnite, began baiting Apple and Google into legal battles. The game developer is playing a game, and it is a strategic one with all to play for.

It was a calculated move on Epic's part. The CEO, Todd Sweeney, has long been critical of these commission fees. In July, he went on record calling Apple's App Store an "absolute monopoly." 

dewme said:

"Battery Health Management" is a bit of a misnomer. The real term for this, and for every Apple product that has a non-user-replaceable battery, and especially those products with lithium-ion batteries, should be "Battery Death Management." There is nothing that you can do to prevent the eventual death of your battery-powered Apple device. It's not a question of whether it will die, but only a question of when it will die, and where you are in the warranty and/or product support lifespan for the product.

If you're lucky and the battery in your Apple device happens to die while under Apple Care, possibly by bloating up and destroying the device in the process, you are golden. Apple will take care of you. If your Apple device battery dies while the product is still being supported, you may be able to get the device repaired or replaced for the standard battery replacement charge. You're not golden, but maybe bronze. Once your Apple product gets assigned to the end-of-life list you are on your own and Apple will gladly recycle the dead, bloated hulk of your formerly treasured Apple device - at no charge. Woo hoo.

Not picking on Apple, okay maybe a little, but you really cannot think of any Apple device that has a non-user-replaceable battery as a durable product that you actually own and can pass down to your kids or donate to charity. You are basically renting these products for an indeterminate, but very finite, period of time after which time it will die in one way or another. For the slimmest and glued together recent products the most common cause of Apple Product Death for me has been battery bloat. Products like the last 3 generations of iPod Touches, iPads, and Apple Watch are particularly susceptible to Death By Battery Bloat (DBBB or DB^3). Other products, like Apple AirPods die silently and quietly on a time scale reminiscent of a Mayfly compared to their non battery operated cousins.

Apple is not alone in perpetuating this very expensive masquerading of quickly decaying products as semi durable goods. They can choke us on new features and dazzle us with design wizardry but they cannot escape the reality that every battery product they sell us is doomed from the day it is born to die in the most inglorious manner long before we are willing to give up on it. Putting some more intelligence in the charging circuitry and software controls is fine, but let's see the a similar level of investment that Apple is putting into "Apple Silicon" into "Apple Portable Energy" to move their products beyond the scourge that is inherent in every battery powered product that Apple currently sells. It really is that big of a deal, and Apple is doing very little, or nothing, to lead us away from a problem that grows exponentially with every new battery powered product they release.

If Apple has an achilles heel, this is it. They own the products and can no longer pass along blame to the battery manufacturers. Own it Tim.

dewme said:

You are basically renting these products for an indeterminate, but very finite, period of time after which time it will die in one way or another. 

Its true for everything that makes a product. Not just battery. You think you can buy something have it last forever??? 
Technology is growing quicker than ever. Even if you want to own an iPhone for 10yrs, you'll be prompted to upgrade after at least 5yrs because of not just battery, everything inside it will age, begins to show its mortal nature. For the same price you can get much better products with better specs after that many years
"Nothing is built to last forever"