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Apple to cut battery replacement down to 29 bucks starting in January
Posted on 12/28/17 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 12/28/17 at 5:29 pm
Due to their "slow gate" they are offering discounted battery replacements for phones 6 and higher.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple posted a letter to consumers Thursday that both apologized for slowing down older iPhones and offered a large reduction in the price of replacement batteries from $79 to $29 for the next year.
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Posted on 12/28/17 at 5:37 pm to Hogkiller10
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— Reduce the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com.
— Early in 2018, "we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance."
The older iPhone performance issue, which quickly became dubbed Batterygate, drew ire and legal maneuverings against a company that typically enjoys a rabid fanbase.
In the latest of a number of lawsuits filed in the U.S. and overseas, iPhone owners contended that Apple's failure to notify iPhone users of the practice and not promoting the ability to replace the batteries in their older devices amounts to fraud, deception and breach of contract.
"It's better to ask forgiveness than permission."
Posted on 12/28/17 at 6:49 pm to Hogkiller10
That's not going to help everybody that ran out and bought a new phone.
Posted on 12/28/17 at 8:51 pm to NC17
Went out and bought two iPhone 8’s for my wife and I to replace our 64GB iPhone 6’s. They were both slowing and crapped out over the last year.
Wife was due for an upgrade for over a year and I had no need or want prior to the wonkiness that the recent updates ushered in. I figured it was just an outdated handset having issues with a nicer OS meant for better specs.
Definite black eye for APPL. I will legitimately be following this whole ordeal.
Wife was due for an upgrade for over a year and I had no need or want prior to the wonkiness that the recent updates ushered in. I figured it was just an outdated handset having issues with a nicer OS meant for better specs.
Definite black eye for APPL. I will legitimately be following this whole ordeal.
Posted on 12/29/17 at 6:02 am to Hogkiller10
Hey -- we fricked up by making your older phones batteries suck on purpose. Now pay us to fix our frick up.
Phenomenal company
Phenomenal company
This post was edited on 12/29/17 at 6:14 am
Posted on 12/29/17 at 7:05 am to Hogkiller10
Doesn’t make up for the fact that they are intentionally sabotaging phones, I hope the class action settlement hurts and gets that POS Cook out of there
Posted on 12/29/17 at 7:53 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29
I think it's safe to assume that Apple isn't doing this at a loss, at best it's at cost. So they would make $50, or say $25 per year on normal battery replacement. I realize Apple is obsessed with making high profit margins, but $25 a year is actually a good amount to keep people locked into the ecosystem. Especially if Apple had been better at building services and finding ways to monetize its customers besides hardware sales. They finally priced cloud storage adequately enough a few years ago that I pay $12 a year to backup my iPhone rather than using my computer for backup.
As someone said, Cook is a problem. He's the supply chain guy so that's what he focuses on, the hardware. Meanwhile the software quality keeps slipping, not to mention the revenue they are missing out on by not having better software services. WeChat, a messaging app in China that has become a defacto payment service, is so popular that it's now going to be an official form of government ID in China. Apple is so afraid of cannibalizing iPhone sales by making iMessage cross platform that they don't realize how big of a platform iMessage itself could be if they made an Android version.
Posted on 12/29/17 at 9:16 am to TheOcean
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Hey -- we fricked up by making your older phones batteries suck on purpose. Now pay us to fix our frick up.
THIS
Posted on 12/29/17 at 9:40 am to Hogkiller10
Short term battery life and battery longevity are a fundamental aspect of all devices that run on batteries. Imagine a flashlight, radio, smoke detector, whatever that were not designed to allow the customer to replace the batteries. Many other expensive products are designed to last a long time and advertise as such. At what point will the cell phone technology reach a threshold in which one of the manufactures seeks market share by selling a phone guaranteed to last 5 years or more while remaining as responsive as the day it was purchased?
Posted on 12/29/17 at 9:46 am to TigerinATL
quote:
I think it's safe to assume that Apple isn't doing this at a loss, at best it's at cost. So they would make $50, or say $25 per year on normal battery replacement. I realize Apple is obsessed with making high profit margins, but $25 a year is actually a good amount to keep people locked into the ecosystem. Especially if Apple had been better at building services and finding ways to monetize its customers besides hardware sales. They finally priced cloud storage adequately enough a few years ago that I pay $12 a year to backup my iPhone rather than using my computer for backup.
As someone said, Cook is a problem. He's the supply chain guy so that's what he focuses on, the hardware. Meanwhile the software quality keeps slipping, not to mention the revenue they are missing out on by not having better software services. WeChat, a messaging app in China that has become a defacto payment service, is so popular that it's now going to be an official form of government ID in China. Apple is so afraid of cannibalizing iPhone sales by making iMessage cross platform that they don't realize how big of a platform iMessage itself could be if they made an Android version.
I've never really been on board with the Tim Cook hate, but I think you're right here. On top of that, iMessage was announced in the June 2011 WWDC keynote, and despite Steve Jobs being on his medical leave, he was present for that keynote. At that keynote, it was claimed that at a later date, iMessage would be opened to other platforms. Jobs died 2 months later, and it was never opened to other platforms, and it was never mentioned again. I wonder if Cook had anything to do with that decision?
Posted on 12/29/17 at 9:49 pm to efrad
This is a joke right?
Hey sorry we slowed your phone way the frick down but give us $30 some odd dollars.. that is if you haven't already spent $800 on a new phone...and we'll bump it back up to its original speed until the new battery starts to get old again.
Indefensible
Hey sorry we slowed your phone way the frick down but give us $30 some odd dollars.. that is if you haven't already spent $800 on a new phone...and we'll bump it back up to its original speed until the new battery starts to get old again.
Indefensible
This post was edited on 12/29/17 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 12/29/17 at 10:12 pm to TigerinATL
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Apple is so afraid of cannibalizing iPhone sales by making iMessage cross platform that they don't realize how big of a platform iMessage itself could be if they made an Android version.
I'd seriously think about making iMessage my default texting if it came to Android. It would be so much easier to text iPhone users.
Posted on 12/29/17 at 10:40 pm to CAD703X
From reddit: Apple kills your phone battery, while Samsung tries to kill you with your phone battery. 
Posted on 12/30/17 at 9:59 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
Yeah it would be awesome for them to do that. It's the best messaging app there is especially now with Apple pay cash integrated in
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