Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics

Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by userbinator on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @11:21PM (#15547195)

Perfect example:

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/09/18/exclusive-hands-video-sta...

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/09/24/jiayu-g5-teardown/

Almost identical in dimensions and appearance to an iPhone 5, yet has expandable storage and a 50% more capacity removable battery. If some small Chinese company can make such a phone, so could Apple, but they deliberately chose not to.

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by coldtea on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:39AM (#15547995)

How many g5 batteries exploded on their owners with third party batteries, most of which are crappy?

It's easy to make anything if you have lax enough standards.

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by cyphar on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:20AM (#15548158)

How many Samsung devices exploded on their owners with first-party batteries? This is a ridiculous argument -- what aspect of a "non crappy" battery will result in a replaceable version being more bulky?

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by coldtea on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:43AM (#15548455)

Obviously the part where non-replaceable batteries are also more expensive designs created to balance maximizing energy while minimizing heat dissipation for a specific model, and studied by the company's own expert teams to specifically fit in the phone they're added in.

Random third party from lowest price manufacturers are usually not.

In fact, as you've shown, even first-party batteries can be dangerous if rushed -- like in the Samsung case you noted.

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