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By activating a dormant software lock on their newest iPhones, Apple is effectively announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries can go in iPhones, and only they can install them.
If you replace the battery in the newest iPhones, a message indicating you need to service your battery appears in Settings > Battery, next to Battery Health. The "Service" message is normally an indication that the battery is degraded and needs to be replaced. The message still shows up when you put in a brand new battery, however. Here's the bigger problem: our lab tests confirmed that even when you swap in a genuine Apple battery, the phone will still display the "Service" message.
It's not a bug; it's a feature Apple wants. Unless an Apple Genius or an Apple Authorized Service Provider authenticates a battery to the phone, that phone will never show its battery health and always report a vague, ominous problem.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @02:01PM (4 children)
Labeling people that way solves absolutely nothing and only causes the people who want the gear to ignore anything you might possibly say, even if it brings some sense of emotional superiority or satisfaction to you. It also proves you aren't interested in knowing the answers. Which brings up the question of why I am writing this....
But it is reasonably simple: It gives greater perceived utility to the purchaser (who may or may not be the user). Going back to the Apple vs. PC wars, for a long time the justification of Apple users (and still is for many who remember those days) is that Apple gear works. There are exceptions to that, but Apple has always been the better choice for persons who want to actually use their gear and not spend time configuring or fixing it and the only thing that has changed is that Microsoft has caught up, somewhat. Because Apple has the closed ecosystem and can exert a greater degree of control. Is that universally true across every device / every single machine? Nope. But it's true enough on average.
They give the customer what the customer wants, and the customer is willing to pay a premium for that. Might as well as why do people fill themselves up with crap fast food, overpay for their living quarters, or hire people to do work that they themselves could do if they were willing to take the time to learn whatever the skill is... or label those people as tards too.
Apple has always been hostile to the notion of anybody but Apple itself modifying or repairing the hardware in any way. People still buy it. Maybe because they have the resources to get a new unit every 2 years and don't want to fuck around with changing batteries anyway?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @02:11PM (3 children)
> Apple gear works.
LOL! "It just works!"
> They give the customer what the customer wants,
LOL again!!
If you want all of the hardware and software problems and privacy issues that come with Apple's walled garden, then certainly, Apple gives you what you want.
Enjoy your Crapple!
However, if you think that Apple hardware or software is somehow superior to most of the alternatives, then the question becomes, "would you like more sugar in your Koolaid?"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 08 2019, @05:12PM (1 child)
I didn't say that I believe that it "just works." I said those who buy Apple gear believe that. Your same attempt at lame insults on every reply on this thread doesn't change that.
And yes, those who buy Apple gear are apparently getting what they want out of it. How else, moron?
See what I did there? Like being called a moron? Did that change or persuade you differently? Why not?
Yes, I like Koolaid. By the way, did you know that in Jonestown it was Flavor-Aid that was primarily used [wikipedia.org] so your comment is factually incorrect? Oh. Not so smart after all, are we?
The thing is those who buy Apple gear see Apple as superior to the alternatives. That's why they pay inflated prices to it compared to the alternatives. Now i could continue the snark from my side and say, "yeah, enjoy spending all night long debugging why your Windows WSD printer definition keeps disconnecting and you have a print queue the size of Bayonne waiting." But point is not to be snarky but rather to get you to see that those who believe in Apple enough to purchase do in fact enjoy their gear and hope you enjoy your uninstallable Linux mess, your shitty windows, or your OS/2 or CP/M install. Whatever you believe in, somebody will find a way to make it wrong for you. So why be a dick?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 08 2019, @10:18PM
Right. For those who want what Apple provides, Apple product are worth paying for.
For those who want something else (which includes me), Apple products are no good at all.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @12:49AM
Another little basement dweller who's never even touched an apple device and just regurgitates all the anti-apple crap he's read on the Interwebs, thinking he's so smart.