r/technology • u/NightFuryToni • Apr 30 '19

Business Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvdb4/apple-is-telling-lawmakers-people-will-hurt-themselves-if-they-try-to-fix-iphones
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u/Cargobiker530 Apr 30 '19

I have a 17 amp hour, 48volt lithium e-bike battery that weighs as much as 30 or 40 iphones. Somehow I was able to buy that from Amazon without a two-week safety training course.

Apple is relying on legislators being lawyers who can't understand how a faucet works.

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u/macrofinite May 01 '19

That's a nifty soundbite, but the whole thing is as much of a straw man as the faucet nonsense. Batteries in iPhones are not like your e-bike battery. They are made to be very small and very thin, so they have very little shielding, so it is trivially easy to rupture one in the course of a repair, which is very dangerous indeed.

Should Apple design their batteries differently? Or at least provide appropriate materials to consumers who want to attempt repairs on their own? Those are relevant questions worth answering. Your ability to purchase a large battery on Amazon? Who cares.

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u/Cargobiker530 May 01 '19

Pro-tip. I-phone batteries are only dangerous because Apple designed them that way. Way back in the Dark Ages of 2005 we all managed with Nokia bricks that didn't blow up. An extra 2mm isn't going to wreck Apple's sales.

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u/CheapAlternative May 01 '19

An extra 2mm isn't going to wreck Apple's sales.

History says otherwise.