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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by thirdsun on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:45AM (#25146881)
It's not a bad battery. The degrading performance over time applies to every battery ever sold. Apple decided that keeping your device functional by slightly reducing the performance once the battery is degraded is preferable to randomly shutting your device down. I agree with them.
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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by yyyk on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:33AM (#25147094)
The battery isn't good for the entire warranty term. Sure it's bad. Apple decided to lie to users about this, and that just happened to encourage expensive iPhone sales, rather than a cheap battery replacement.

I sure hope Apple isn't taking your approach to HW reliability across the board. After all, memory and disk eventually go bad too.

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Re:Apple Agrees to Pay $113M to Settle 'Batterygate' Case ov... by La1n on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:15AM (#25147315)
>It's not a bad battery. The degrading performance over time applies to every battery ever sold.

It's not a bad banana. Rotting after a while applies to every banana ever sold.

Yes it's a natural thing to happen, but it doesnt mean it's not bad.

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