VictorMortimer

Apple green lights Epic Games Store in rapid reversal

July 2024

dix99 said:

Apple needs to put a safety disclaimer, with regards to downloading from outside of the App Store. Now it’s at the owners risk, as these have not been certified with an Apple Gold Check mark, which means they’ve been tested at Apple.

Apple needs to NOT imply that apps from outside the Apple app store are somehow any less safe than apps from inside it, because if they lie like that they're going to find themselves with even higher fines.

And that's a good thing.

Apple has been treating you so badly for so long that you've developed something akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Apple's repair programs have more to do to satisfy New York Right to Repair law

VictorMortimer

July 2024

rezwits said:

mikethemartian said:

rezwits said:

Can I buy a product please where I give 100% consent, for NO RIGHT TO REPAIR? So basically, I purchase said item that is twice as fast, half as heavy, half the cost, and looks ∞ better. Just sign away my "#RightToRepair?" God please someday let this be...
@tim_cook

@Apple

You can waive away any property right you have.

Here let me fix that for you and STATE the OBVIOUS:

Can I buy a product please where (there is a contract I can sign and) I give 100% consent, for NO RIGHT TO REPAIR (in order to purchase said item where RTR does not apply, and the company can claim no responsibility to comply with having me/or anyone else, except themselves if they so choose, to be able to do repairs, and if they want they can throw in a 'We will replace.')?

Did I fill in the/your blanks for you? Or are there more blanks you would like to discuss because I assume you understand the druthers that this nonsense can have and that this can go on and on and on...

And yes I said ASSUME.

Fortunately, no.

You have the right to not repair your stuff. You've always had and will continue to have that right.

You do not and should not have any sort of right to buy stuff that isn't repairable, because that affects the sane people who do need the right to repair negatively, and therefore also affects the planet negatively because unrepairable devices generate more e-waste.

Glued iPhone batteries may be a thing of the past, if this new tech works out

VictorMortimer

June 2024

macxpress said:

Command strips would work great for securing in the battery. It's also easily removable and replacable without damaging the battery while removing it. Flat out glue is a very bad decision.

Clips would work great. There is ZERO excuse for using the garbage they use, which is essentially a very thin "command strip" type strip (that breaks virtually every time you try to pull it out.

davidw said:

There is a reason why the battery in iPhones and iPads are "glued" down, that most here don't seem to realize. That is that the adhesive, which covers the whole backside of the battery, acts like thermal paste to help transfer the heat from the battery to the metal back cover. The back cover acts as a heat sink. Just like how thermal paste is applied between a CPU and the heat sink, to ensure as much contact as possible.

There is also a very small gap, (at least on the ones I've replaced), between the top of the battery and the screen on top of it. This acts as a insulator to keep as much heat away from the back of the screen and more importantly, to provide enough space for normal expansion of the battery when it heats up. Therefore, one do not want that expansion gap between the battery and the back cover or any gap there at all, caused by just putting a small amount of adhesive on the corners of the battery (to hold it down) so that it can be easily removed later.

And if possible, when replacing the battery, one shouldn't just use any double sided tape but heat sink double side tape (they sell such a thing) when bonding the battery to the back cover. And the tape should cover the whole battery to ensure a complete bond. The very last thing one want to do is to use any adhesive that ends up acting like an insulator. (Which is why velcro is a no-no.)

https://www.amazon.com/25Mx20mmx0-15mm-Adhesive-Performance-Thermally-Heatsink/dp/B0751GYD6N /ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vuZ8wI-bHDxR-RnUCevX5nGN1r9HBmsOSpS0LmTCCj28eheGdWn-TftGSY5q35FRGB5oFvliVoFrEmHIro_UXYt7bLobmGg_L7scdtbsdE9N1pGuS96deJ5EzMuV7XUuo1syF_WxRA2jf1biKPkjTjiO-4oKr0fVYjxsvufpKPVGUbfz9QFQp6FwGRvgf9geH1c7Pjx9G5rfDYf-qHY2QNYuhKcv3DZgq0U21IWZxL0.eepM9THFhEfI7AZ6NcEfXDhnFm6XHmwpM6kbCB31seM&dib_tag=se&keywords=double+sided+thermal+tape&qid=1719535955&sr=8-2

One shouldn't be accusing Apple of unnecessarily making it difficult to replace the battery. But Apple do have a habit of over engineering a fix to a problem, where the fix might cause more of the problem later on, than the problem being fixed.

I just use a hairdryer to heat the back cover for about 30 seconds, to soften the adhesive and battery can be easily pried off. But it still requires the battery to bend quite a bit (when being pried out.) and therefore, I would never use that battery again in another device. Don't know what internal damage could have been caused by the bending. Which is why I don't buy used iPhone or iPad batteries, even if the seller say that it's in excellent health. No telling how much bending occurred when it was removed.

Virtually everything about this is wrong.

First, you DO NOT want the battery to be thermally coupled to a heat sink that is also the heat sink for the CPU. The battery would get HOTTER because of it.

Fortunately, the back cover is not a heat sink in current iPhones, it's made of glass, which isn't that great at thermal conduction, particularly compared to the aluminum they used to use.

And one should absolutely be accusing Apple of unnecessarily making it difficult to replace the battery, because that is exactly what they are doing.

Heat is the WRONG option for removing the adhesive. Squirt a bit of 91% isopropyl alcohol in there, you'll be able to remove the battery undamaged.

But adhesive of ANY kind is doing it wrong. Small metal clips with screws would be the perfect attachment for batteries like Apple uses, but that's ALSO the wrong approach, because batteries should be easily swappable without tools, like they were on older phones. Changing the battery on my old Motorola flip phones took seconds, I kept spare batteries charging so I never had to worry about charging the phone itself, I just changed to a fully charged battery. THAT is what Apple should be doing.