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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If by "incorrectly done" third party repairs, you mean ones that don't subscribe to apple's repair programme that insists on you giving up user's personal information, only using Apple parts both in the device and for the disassembly, and paying Apple fees, then sure.

You even have to disclose financial and tax information of your entire business to Apple. Plus they put restrictions on repairs - i.e no repairing individual components on PCBs, you have to replace the whole board.

But that's not how third party repairs should be done and you'd be massive cunt for championing that kind of bullshit business practice.

[–] ji17br@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think it’s more about using shitty batteries. Some 3rd party shops will buy the cheapest batteries in order to get a cheaper fee/make more money. From experience the cheap batteries are horrible and don’t anywhere near the performance of a quality battery.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Sorry I hurt your feelings lol. I was only criticising a multi-trillion dollar company.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ok cool, but what's the relevance?

Some batteries might be bad, so Apple gets to needlessly cripple your repaired phone's performance, unless you go through Apple?

How could you possibly argue that's not cunty behaviour?

If someone gets a repair with a non-OEM battery, and it turns out to be not good, then either let it shut down or throttle the performance as normal. If it turns out to be fine... don't. The device is capable of doing battery checks.

I really don't understand how you can defend Apple deliberately sabotaging performance over a part they know to be working fine.