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Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries
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Apple charges $99 for a battery replacement.
It’s not cemented into the chassis lol, Apple replaces it for $99 or you can just buy the part from ‘em and replace it yourself.
I mean, that sucks for you but pull-tabs are considered ‘repair-friendly’ by pretty much everyone in the Right to Repair movement.
Rossman is a device repairman tbf, he sees the worst of the worst phones out there.
Well, it is what it is. Maybe they could use better glue, idk.
If they can do that without increasing the phone’s size/thickness or compromising its performance and/or battery life, I’d be all for it.
Yeah I agree, it's better to be able to change them than not.
Either way that price point still hurts for a battery (when an original standard enterprise laptop battery is usually less than half the price)