Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911
by celsoazevedo on Thursday December 09, 2021 @12:17PM
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Cheap battery replacements, the option to disable the "feature", etc, only happened after they were sued.
The idea was good, but it was implemented in a way that created issues for some users (eg: my iPhone 5 being sluggish all the time) and benefited Apple as most users would simply buy a new iPhone because no one knew what was going on.
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911
by daniel-cussen on Friday December 10, 2021 @04:32PM
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Yeah plus their geniuses, lol like every one of their entry level employees won a Nobel prize in order to become a sales clerk, were scripted into shunting customers to buying new iPhones. Oh oh the gadget is fucky? Hmm what could possibly motivate such a malfunction? Oh I did just so happen to witness one customer, very peculiar, the device was clearly rotten. Happens after one year. I'm afraid a new battery, which MAY SEEM AT FIRST GLANCE like the OBVIOUS SOLUTION, but COUNTERINTUITIVELY is not, will not work. You need a new battery, but as a part of a comprehensive unit, complete with a new CPU, a new screen, a new chassis, in short, a new thing of every part of this device. You need a new device.
Personally I think it's pretty great to know that I can use my iPhone even with a degraded battery and not have it shut down unexpectedly.
I've had both iPhones and Androids do that in the past, often in cold weather and during bursts of high load (like on a chairlift at a ski resort, which my example here is based on).