Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple
by andromeduck on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:32PM
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What's the point of AA and AAA when lipo already has months of battery life, better weight and weight distribution and don't have to deal with finding/charging batteries, battery recycling all the time, gunk from unequal cell discharge etc.
It's so much easier to just plug on a USB cable for all of 2 minutes.
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Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple
by spronkey on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:15AM
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2-3 years later when your proprietary LiPo dies, you'll pat your younger self on the back for choosing a standardised battery. You will repeat this over and over again for every time you choose a standardised power source over a proprietary one.
Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple
by andromeduck on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:45AM
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These batteries last months, at the standard 500 cycle's that's about a decade's worth of regular use.
Re:Jony Ive: 8 hits and 8 misses from 20 years at Apple
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @09:26AM
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2 minutes is 2 minutes too long. I don’t want to sit and wait while my mouse recharges.
(Yes, swapping batteries tajes some amount of time, but so does finding and plugging in a cable, so that’s a wash as far as I’m concerned.)