Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

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34 points

I wonder how apple will react to this

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Apple fanboy here… but they’re probably gonna market the feature with some cool new trendy name and make the battery replacements proprietary.

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41 points

It will be built from the ground up 😂

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13 points

Overcomplicated, overpriced, and they’re gonna incentive just getting the next gen phone.

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You mean built by some other manufacturer and marketed to seem like it was built from the ground up from Apple themselves.

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16 points

$300 battery for your iPhone

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3 points

Screens are now up there for genuine. Oh, and btw Apple very quietly implemented an “alert” when you have an aftermarket screen.

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Now i hope it says something about availability of the replacement batteries…

Due to unexpectedly high demand, the $300 battery you ordered has 5 months waiting list. Payment in advance, of course, for your convenience.

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I mean…battery replacements were ALWAYS proprietary. You can’t pop a Galaxy S4 battery in a GS 5.

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But you can put up a firmware barrier that keeps the phone from booting up, or at least from operating at full advertised capacity, unless it’s an “authentic” battery that’s been officially registered to that particular phone’s serial number, which can only be done via special tools and software that are only available to official Apple repair shops. They’ve done it with cameras and screens and buttons, why not batteries? It’s just another part.

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You can buy third party batteries. The batteries are customized to the phone, but they aren’t exclusively sold by the OEM.

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4 points

It will be magnetic

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4 points

“And we think you’re gonna love it”

🙏

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1 point

Oh you probably shouldn’t go around admitting that so willingly.

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They’re going to see the battery is replaced and show your phone down. Just to be safe you know.

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9 points

By designing a model of iphone with replaceable battery, of course.

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I think they’re already complying. Tri-tip bits are already bought easily and affordably on Amazon. Same with suction cups, picks and tweezers. Literally $30 or less to get all of the above in one nifty carrying case. If you have suction cups then you can break the screen seal without using heat and let’s be honest, hair dryers are perfectly adequate for these repairs. It’s literally what I use for friends and family repairs that I do at home rather than in my workshop.

I think it’s a step in the right direction but not even remotely strong enough to force change on current cell phones.

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Probably voiding warranty for any phone that has its battery replaced by the user instead of having it done at an apple store/apple vertified store. Or some good old planned obsolescence where the phone detects a replacement battery and just stops working as fast as it used to. Anything to get people to buy the next new iphone every year.

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I don’t think Apple really want to be caught to do somenthing they are already been condemned for, at least not in EU…

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Design batteries that can also function independently as a powerbank? That would be useful.

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