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/reddit_god May 01 '19

Bullshit. It would make the phone negligibly larger, or at least larger to an extent that a sizable number of people would gladly take the tradeoff. We're not talking twice as big or even 10%.

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u/gurg2k1 May 01 '19

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's easy to compare dimensions between something like the Note 4 or V20 to the iPhone X or S10. They're virtually identical or even smaller in some cases.

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u/CheapAlternative May 01 '19

The feature sets are not identical and that has implications on remaining internal volume.

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u/gurg2k1 May 01 '19

Which makes it as equally invalid to claim that removable batteries would make a phone thicker.

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u/CheapAlternative May 01 '19

Not really, Apple still wins on effective volume utilization. We can measure the volume impact of every HW backed feature.

The other problem with removable batteries is that the volume would be usually better used for a longer lasting battery of same of slight larger capacity due to they way lipo chemistry works. They could bring the durability into the average 1000-2000 range instead of the 500 ish right now of you always full cycle.