Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation

Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by fsflover on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:23PM (#24319537)

> I don't see how you could have a hot-swappable battery without making the whole thing a lot more bulky. Personally I think this whole "make it repairable" movement is mostly missing the mark when it comes to modern phones.

Do you also think that Fairphone is “a lot more bulky” and “missing the mark”?

https://fairphone.com

I think that Apple simply designs their devices with planned obsolescence for more profit.

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Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by samatman on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:23PM (#24320119)

I don't think that's true at all.

My mother inherited my late-2014 iPhone 6. It still gets security updates, although it won't run the current iOS.

The battery started to swell, so she took it in for a new one. They replaced it with a refurb, since they aren't authorized to do replacements of swollen batteries on-site. It cost her as much as a replacement battery would. Presumably, the original has been refurbished and someone else is using it.

If Apple is planning for obsolescence, they're doing a poor job of it, compared to literally any other phone manufacturer in existence.

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Re:Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion batter... by boogies on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:59PM (#24321017)

> If Apple is planning for obsolescence, they're doing a poor job of it, compared to literally any other phone manufacturer in existence.

I don’t think that’s true at all. The Fairphone 2 came out the year after your mothers’s iPhone and got an OS update this year, and if she had it then she would be authorized and likely capable of replacing the battery herself.

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