Draco

People who still want leather, like me, are just going to buy non-Apple accessories. It's a stupid move that will sacrifice sales on the altar of virtue signaling. 

It's like their lightning and USB-C cables that are made out of recycled butterfly wings but only last a couple of years before they break. 

mayfly said:

Draco said:

I don't know much about the iPhone 15, but I do know this:

It's the best iPhone they've ever made. 

You know this because every iPhone Apple has made is the best iPhone they've ever made?

It's a joke mocking the fact that they literally say this every time they reveal a new phone. 

robin huber said:

No good deed goes unpunished. The “throttling” was not nefarious, but a good faith effort to protect consumers from overheating phones. In other words what tort attorneys call a business opportunity. 

The throttling wasn't done to prevent overheating. It was done to prevent "unexpected shutdown" which is a case where the phone's battery display shows a relatively high state-of-charge like 20-30%, yet the phone shuts off immediately after a heavy load is applied such as CPU, GPU, camera, etc. 

Users should have been given the ability to opt into this behavior, but Apple, always trying to keep things simple, made the behavior automatic for all users. 

The study may be flawed but I can tell you first hand that it's directionally correct. Apple is a sausage grinder for engineers; many people quit or are fired before they even make it two years. And unlike other companies, if your manager doesn't like you, they will do nothing to help you find another position in the company under a different manager--you're just gone. 

Your schematic of a stacked battery is incorrect. You can't make bend radii that small without causing cell shorts. 

A stacked battery is made from individual bi-cells stacked, with tabs welded together at one end. Apple has been using both wound and stacked batteries for years, even in the iPhone. All other things being equal, the stacked design does have some advantage in terms of lower impedance which helps enable faster charging.