Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later
by reaperducer on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:49PM
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If you could get a new battery for $30 and install it yourself in 30 seconds, would people be throwing less phones out?
Having had cell phones starting in 1994, when replaceable batteries were just how it was done, I can say people did replace their phones just as often as now.
My memory is that people replaced them every year back then, in part, because the batteries were so awful and new phones kept coming out with better battery life.
Today, many (most?) people keep their cell phones for at least two years, and on HN it seems to be even longer. I have an iPhone 5 from 2013 that I use for traveling, and it just keeps going. Using a seven-year-old phone would have been unheard of back in the days of replaceable batteries.
Having had cell phones starting in 1994, when replaceable batteries were just how it was done, I can say people did replace their phones just as often as now.
My memory is that people replaced them every year back then, in part, because the batteries were so awful and new phones kept coming out with better battery life.
Today, many (most?) people keep their cell phones for at least two years, and on HN it seems to be even longer. I have an iPhone 5 from 2013 that I use for traveling, and it just keeps going. Using a seven-year-old phone would have been unheard of back in the days of replaceable batteries.