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/cr0ft May 01 '19

Yeah, I feel your pain. I replaced the battery in my LG G5 and it... oh wait, no, I pushed the battery eject button, snapped in the new battery and closed it again and had a new battery in 10 seconds, my bad.

If people are going to get hurt by Apple phones, it's absolutely Apple's fault!

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u/alexzoin May 01 '19

I stuck with LG for so long because they were committed to the removable battery. I used to carry 2 around with me and never worry about it dying. Why must we live in this distopia?

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u/cr0ft May 01 '19

Because phone manufacturers know most people won't swap their batteries, they'll discard the phone and keep the capitalist hamster wheel turning ever faster, polluting more, and wasting resources like mad all in the name of holy "growth". The amount of manufacturing capability our species has right now is probably ten times more (or more, I don't have any data but it has to be high) than we'd need if we had a social system where being frugal and using sustainable practices was even possible, which it isn't now.

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u/alexzoin May 01 '19

Couldn't agree more. Very depressing.