Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case over iPhone Slowdowns

Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:39AM (#25146857)

Lithium ion chemistry can vary things significantly, but I was picturing simply putting in a larger battery for the hypothetical. The motivation is more hours of runtime, but as a side effect you have more peak watts available.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Retric on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:31AM (#25149243)

Now you’re paying to change voltage, which adds cost and heat. Sure, users don’t really notice that something’s wrong, but they get a worse device that costs more money and needs to heat throttle anyway.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:18PM (#25153875)

Not a higher voltage battery. A physically larger battery. More watt-hours and more watts.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Retric on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:39AM (#25159856)

Voltage drop is minimally impacted by battery size, it only helps in that the battery would have less usage, but it still ages for time passing.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:17AM (#25168151)

> Voltage drop is minimally impacted by battery size

That makes the job easier! Just cut the battery in half. Let's say the original battery could handle 5 amps before the voltage drop got too bad. If a half-size battery can handle 4 amps, and you put in two of them, now you can handle 8 amps.

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