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Re:Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup by rtkwe on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:12AM (#20676119)
The damning part is that even if the repair place uses an actual Apple battery with all the circuitry exactly the same the phone treats it as a complete unknown because it hasn't been approved by Apple and authenticated. If I open up two identical iPhones and swap the batteries I shouldn't have diminished functionality, the phone should still fully report everything it knows about the battery health.
Re:Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup by jpttsn on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:41AM (#20676436)
What if you let the battery get wet/warm when replacing? Should the software trust that you replaced it correctly?
Re:Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup by rtkwe on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:15PM (#20678243)
What if Apple's installer screws the same thing up? And if that was really a huge issue just locking out any battery monitoring is... worse because now there's just the meaningless 'You're battery isn't Apple approved and installed' warning.