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iFixit matches Apple's $29 battery swap cost, covers pre-iPhone 6 devices
There is a reason nobody does that anymore. A battery compartment makes the phone bulky and less durable. Why have a replaceable battery if your phone bends before you need a new one. Older phones mainly allowed swaps to increase runtime, not for easy repairs. Making the phone sealed also allows it to be waterproof.DavidAlGregory said:Had Apple designed the iPhone with a battery compartment where owners could swap batteries without special tools this could have been avoided. Of course, then millions would get off of the 2 year upgrade cycle. Finally, what about iPod Touch & iPads?
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Hoping to capitalize on Apple battery controversy, HTC and Motorola volunteer that they do...
The 5s is never throttled. They only throttle the iPhone 6 and later. Although apps built for the new OS assume a faster processor and it may appear to run more slowly. I've noticed a lot of the machine learning tech takes a large toll on older phones. Smart phones are also advancing a lot faster then computers right now. A three year old phone is like a 6 year old computer.deepinsider said:It has nothing to do with old batteries. I have a new replacement 5s due to my old one having a failed battery. This new phone was plenty fast under iOS 10... then iOS 11 came out shortly after I got the new phone. iOS 11 made it run S-L-O-W-L-Y. It seems Apple's solution to having shipped phones with defective batteries is to replace them with equally defective batteries, and throttle the phone's performance in an attempt to avoid new battery failures. Pretty lame.
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Apple offers free repairs for 2013 Mac Pros with defective video cards
Not sure where you are coming from. This is a part they need to ship. Even in the professional or enterprise market it is rare to find a better turnaround time on hardware repairs then this. If uptime is that important you maintain a pool of spares or own a MacBook Pro to fall back on. A GPU repair would require a burn-in test, so it probably would not happen while you wait. Most Apple parts arrive in 1-2 days, so in theory the repair may be completed sooner.spaceage said:This whole system is so out of touch with any supposed "pro" market that it purports to address. What is with a "3-5 day" repair period? If you are a pro, and you've invested $10k or more into a system like this, how happy must you be to have to lose a week of productivity waiting for this? Apple should literally make this a while you wait repair that you schedule, but I guess the system is so woefully complex to service that you have to wait days to change a video card. Just another example why having a strange, semi-proprietary hardware design is a terrible idea for pros. And what's with no CPU updates since intro, max 1tb flash, no retina-level display option from Apple, and probably half a dozen other ridiculous decisions Apple has made with this product. Who comes up with and approves this stuff? Obviously execs with more money than brains, detached from reality.
