Everytime I read about greenpeace talking about how Apple's products are so terrible for the environment while saying nothing about android products I roll my eyes.
Same thing with the fix it folks saying Apple's products are "unrepairable". There is a great market for both repair and reuse / re-sale in apple products.
It's interesting comparing a 4 year old android tablet or phone (which was sometimes a year behind when shipping already) to apple's products.
While I personally wish Apple would be more supportive of 3rd party or at-home repairs, I think what they've been doing there actually helps with extending the life of their devices.
Let's say you're thinking of buying a used iPhone. If you had reason to believe that used iPhones were mostly repaired by 3rd parties that didn't necessarily know what they're doing, or were using cheap or even dangerous (in the case of batteries) parts. Would you buy used, or would go just buy some cheap new phone? And if people weren't interested in buying, would you bother trying to sell your old phone or would you just throw it away?
Making sure the quality of second-hand market is high is essential to encouraging re-use. I think a lot of those who are criticising Apple when it comes to repair should remember that. It's not that they're wrong in saying that Apple should support 3rd party repair, but their complaints are not gonna come to much unless what they propose is actually reasonable.. i.e. makes it easier for 3rd parties to repair iPhones while maintaining a healthy second-hand market for iPhones. And that's not easy.
The ic is not part of battery chemistry- in case this comment isn’t a joke a common workaround would be to grab ic from dead batteries and put them on fakes.
You're right, keeping keys in SRAM and other trivial anti-tamper measures are way too expensive. Cutoffs are performed by the same IC. Should be trivial.
This was a business decision for sure. Apple doesn't want anyone but Apple to work on their devices. Now maybe you can say that alone is good for resale, but it's extremely shitty for customers, especially when their attitude is to tell people they need a new board and all their data is gone when a repair, often even a simple one is entirely possible.
The issue w bogus undisclosed batteries was causing problems for apples brand rep. Many of the bulging / exploding batteries were not in the end apple.
The lie you are spreading, that you can’t use non apple batteries is false. The phone will work fine, but apple will let you know it can’t model the batteries health.
Having the phone recognize if the battery key has changed is a simple and effective way to manage this.
For MANY people, being able to rely on the apple battery health check is far more important than allowing scammers to do a cheap battery swap, sell phone with a “near new” battery, and then have customer in apple store complaining a few weeks later only to be told they were ripped off
As I pointed out there's fairly simple ways for them to resolve this without these practices. No where did I suggest that the batteries don't work at all. The extents people go to on this site to defend Apple's shitty anti-consumer behavior is utter insanity.
Go ahead and describe the fairly simple solution you've come up with understanding there is a surprising amount of money out there to defeat it.
If by "brand new" battery you mean an unused battery there are actually issues there, sellers do sell "unused" batteries as "brand new" but the mfg date turns out to be really old. Technically true I guess - the battery has not been used? Would I want a 3-4 year old battery? No - who knows what SOC it has been maintained at.
What is interesting is apple's focus on "shitty anti-consumer" behavior which is "utter insanity" has resulted in a lot of consumers buying their product.
iFixit and the other "right to repair" advocates are talking their own book. Apple products are uniformly the same across the entire installed base so it's easy to keep parts in stock and meet expected demand for repairs. They also have higher residual values so people are much wore willing to spend money on repairs for them.
Last summer, for example, Greenpeace teamed up with iFixit to rate the repairability of Apple devices, accusing Apple of shortening device lifespan with difficult, proprietary repair processes and components, ultimately leading to more electronic waste. - 2018
Same thing with the fix it folks saying Apple's products are "unrepairable". There is a great market for both repair and reuse / re-sale in apple products.
It's interesting comparing a 4 year old android tablet or phone (which was sometimes a year behind when shipping already) to apple's products.