No reasonable person would purchase a phone knowing that a wear item like a battery can only be obtained by having the manufacturer replace it. Therefore, Apple suddenly adding technological checks to prevent replacing such a wear item without informing the buying public prior to purchase seems like clear and evident intent to defraud the public.
I encourage every person who owns one of the affected products to contact his/her state's Attorney General and demand that legal action be taken on behalf of the
Just wait until all those people who've brought electric cars hit the 10 year mark.
Actually, electric cars are pretty easy by comparison. The batteries are huge, and use large, easy-to-work-with cells, so most repairs are likely to involve rebuilding one or more subpacks in the existing packs using commonly available round cells of the same size, plus some basic soldering. Cell phones are much harder to deal with because they use bag cells instead of round cells, with embedded electronics and custom wiring harnesses that are built into the pouches in such a way that it is difficult to just swap out the Lithium polymer bag cell by itself.
How is this not fraud? (Score:5, Interesting)
No reasonable person would purchase a phone knowing that a wear item like a battery can only be obtained by having the manufacturer replace it. Therefore, Apple suddenly adding technological checks to prevent replacing such a wear item without informing the buying public prior to purchase seems like clear and evident intent to defraud the public.
I encourage every person who owns one of the affected products to contact his/her state's Attorney General and demand that legal action be taken on behalf of the
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"No reasonable person would purchase a phone knowing that a wear item like a battery can only be obtained by having the manufacturer replace it."
Just wait until all those people who've brought electric cars hit the 10 year mark.
Re:How is this not fraud? (Score:2)
Actually, electric cars are pretty easy by comparison. The batteries are huge, and use large, easy-to-work-with cells, so most repairs are likely to involve rebuilding one or more subpacks in the existing packs using commonly available round cells of the same size, plus some basic soldering. Cell phones are much harder to deal with because they use bag cells instead of round cells, with embedded electronics and custom wiring harnesses that are built into the pouches in such a way that it is difficult to just swap out the Lithium polymer bag cell by itself.