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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by fluidcruft on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:46PM (#30075106)
Exactly. Google played the "pay Apple prices for an Apple experience" tactic and already reneged. They're in a tough spot because I won't trust them again with anything not priced to be replaced in three years. So when you get to the question of wanting a device that lasts longer, the answer seems to be Apple.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by JacobThreeThree on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:55PM (#30075260)
>the answer seems to be Apple

Until Apple bricks your phone with a stealth update because you haven't upgraded quickly enough.

https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-iphones-settlement-idU...

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by wlesieutre on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:14PM (#30075580)
I had one of the affected phones and concur that it was shitty of them to try and sneak that by people, but "throttled the peak CPU boost" is a long way from "bricked"

Upside of the settlement was I got a battery replacement for $30 (performed same day in store) and coming up on 6 years since release the original iPhone SE is still running the latest version of iOS.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by vanilla_nut on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:24PM (#30081685)
Also a happy OG SE user who got one of the cheap battery replacements. Replaced again a couple years later with an iFixit battery for ~$30, still using it to this day. Holding out for a worthy upgrade path...
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by fluidcruft on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:01PM (#30075359)
Honestly I think this is the real issue: batteries barely last three years and when they start to go things go strange and people blame the phone rather than replace the battery. I expect somewhere inside Google they grok that supporting a phone beyond three years becomes the root cause problem being dying batteries.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by MiddleEndian on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:49PM (#30076145)
>people blame the phone rather than replace the battery.

If their phone doesn't have a replaceable battery then blaming the phone is correct.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by Bud on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:08PM (#30076468)
No, it's simply not. Not when the battery can actually be replaced for $49. The battery is replaceable.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by post-it on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:50PM (#30077068)
The opportunity cost of having to look up a vendor store, go there, and wait an hour+ for them to replace my battery may as well be infinite.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by throwaway946513 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:57PM (#30077917)
Which is about the same thing for an iPhone? Apple stores don't magically replace batteries in seconds. On my iPhone 6s, I had both a bad battery, and a defective display - took 7 hours to get my phone back after scheduling an appointment at the Apple Store.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by post-it on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:15PM (#30091990)
iPhone batteries should be user-replaceable too. Maybe with a pair of screws instead of a clip.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by google234123 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:14PM (#30078875)
That’s bullshit. I guess overturning cost for repairing a car is also infinite by that logic.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by post-it on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:16PM (#30091998)
It is. I hate getting my car repaired. Now that I work from home, if I didn't already own a car, I very well might not buy one.
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by kaba0 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:35PM (#30080158)
Once per 3 years?!
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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by schmorptron on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:23PM (#30078962)
I wonder how much of this could be extended by phones just auto-limiting charging to 90% (current phones already time charging so when left on overnight it only reaches 100% when you wake up) most of the time, since that seems to increase battery longevity by a lot.
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