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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by jdminhbg on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:39PM (#18811445)
$69 is pretty reasonable to me. The problem isn't that the battery replacement cost was too high, it's that Apple didn't clearly communicate that the problem was a battery issue in the first place. The phones just slowed down without telling you why. The cost subsidies were just a PR move to atone for that.
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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by heyjudy on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:10PM (#18811625)
If I could buy the official or know quality battery part for $25, I'd do it myself.
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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by shaklee3 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @08:03PM (#18811934)
$40 isn't bad:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-X-Replacement-Bat...

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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by bickfordb on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:17PM (#18811674)
I believe they're ~$20 on Aliexpress?
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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by general8bitso on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @07:54PM (#18811891)
They said ‘quality’.
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Re:Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors by macspoofing on Thursday January 03, 2019 @07:31AM (#18814609)
Would you really stick a $20 AliExpress lithium battery in your phone?
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