In an interview with Orbit about sustainability, John Ternus, senior VP of hardware engineering at Apple, said they want to focus on making sure customers have easy...
  • TheOtherKundotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    The Apple argument is ridiculous. They are making phones for how many years? Over 10. Yet, their engineers have not figured out a solution to have a removable battery and have it waterproof? Give me a break. Apple is greedy as fuck, but that’s not a news.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Apple is making the wrong argument here. They already make an external battery pack that attaches magnetically. They also already offer battery replacement by a tech through service. They should be pointing at that, rather than saying they can’t figure out a way to redesign their phone.

    I’m honestly amazed their PR people couldn’t spin it better. Truth be told, if it gets legislated then they’ll figure out a way to do it, or will make some design compromises. It won’t be the end of the world.

  • NavarianEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    What they mean to say is

    A potential failure point in our business model

    Which of course, is planned obsolescence.

  • Solumbran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    So a company that loves making phones obsolete just to force people to buy more, doesn’t like reparability? Who could have guessed…

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Yes and it is super risky and people will get killed. We have heard all the lies. They make up whatever suits them at the moment. Louis Rossmann can tell you one… perhaps even two stories about Apples bullshit.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yet, my 8 year old phone with a tool-free replaceable battery is working just fine.

    It’s almost like they’re full of shit.

  • TeknikalEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wtf unremovable batteries are a guaranteed failure point to phones.

    Apple needs slapped.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Yes, failure points, like longevity due to user replaceable batteries meaning the phone could be kept and used longer. That’s just a failure point when you consider the end goal of giving people reasons to buy new phones more frequently than they otherwise would.

  • Southsamurai@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Bullshit. My lgg3 is sitting right here next to me on the headboard, serving me quite well as an alarm clock, white noise generator (when needed), and nighttime notepad.

    The only thing that failed on it is the sd card slot after it got dropped for the twentieth odd time.