Re:Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
by mrguyorama on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:11PM
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Except they only HAD to do that because the battery simply did not have the capability to continue providing enough voltage and/or current by the time it got to about 20% degraded, which for many people could happen in just a few years. This only happened because they were putting stupidly small batteries in their phones to shave another millimeter off of the size that nobody cared about.
Either Apple did the proper QA of the battery to understand how it would behave as it got to end of life and knowingly put a battery into a $800 phone that wouldn't be functional before the phone would run out of software updates, or they FAILED to do proper longevity testing on the battery of a $800 phone.
It wasn't planned obsolescence when they added that code to keep the older phones working. It WAS planned obsolescence when they put a pitiful and underspecced battery into their $800 phone.
Either Apple did the proper QA of the battery to understand how it would behave as it got to end of life and knowingly put a battery into a $800 phone that wouldn't be functional before the phone would run out of software updates, or they FAILED to do proper longevity testing on the battery of a $800 phone.
It wasn't planned obsolescence when they added that code to keep the older phones working. It WAS planned obsolescence when they put a pitiful and underspecced battery into their $800 phone.