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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by scarface74 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:45AM (#22168835)
“In more complex cases, we might need to send it to an Apple Repair Center.”

There are no “complex cases” of battery repair. They are referring to cases where there is other damage they have to fix first (which they stated).

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by wlesieutre on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:16AM (#22169534)
Not everyone lives near an Apple Store either.

Thankfully Apple has recently made genuine iPhone batteries more available to repair shops, but that was just 4 months ago. They spent 13 years not doing that first.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20838307/apple-iphone-rep...

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Re:I won’t buy an iPad: ten years later by scarface74 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:41AM (#22169749)
People have been able to go to a shop and get batteries replaced (whether they were genuine or not) for a decade. It’s only been within the past two or three years where it made the slightest difference between whether it was genuine or not.
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