We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration

Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by toast0 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:07PM (#40458650)

Replacing the battery on a phone would make sense if it was easy to do. But I can't get reasonable phones with a back that comes off intentionally to replace a modular battery. Which means I'm paying someone to unglue the back, replace the battery, and reglue the back. Their time costs money, so I'm thinking ~ $50 for the battery and ~ $50 for their time, plus my time to get there and back and wait, and I'm halfway to a $200 phone that's going to be way better than my 3 year old $200 phone.

I don't like how disposable everything is, but labor costs to repair are huge. I just got rid of a van because of a failed head gasket, because it's too much work to get to the not that expensive part.

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Re:We're Ending Our Samsung Collaboration by Retric on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:55PM (#40459154)

I find the time it takes to swap to a new phone is significantly longer than the time it takes to get a new battery. You can drop it of any time in a year long window without issue and no need to do anything specific when you pick it up let alone decide on which new phone you want etc.

As to labor costs, people get really good at swapping batteries on popular phones and their hourly rates are low. Even Apple is only charging 70-100$ based depending the model.

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