Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

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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