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Cycle count is virtually meaningless. I have a MacBook Pro with almost 1000 charge cycles and it’s got ~93% battery health after 8 years.

Lithium batteries are happiest around 40% state of charge. The closer you can keep them to that magic number the longer they’ll last. But leave them fully charged, or even worse, fully dead and that’s the quickest way to kill them with “normal” use.

We have phones plugged in 24/7 for work. The phones where I can limit the battery charging have never had expanded batteries. The ones that cant expand regularly (sometimes as little as 6 months).

Personally i hate the optimized battery charging ios does. It’s awful. I’d rather being able to keep my phone plugged in basically 24/7 and always have it ready to go, but not have to worry about expediting its death.

Re:Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:42AM (#5412974)
me made a joke.... there is a HUGE difference