Posted on 12/27/2015 8:49:52 AM PST by Scutter
Replacing batteries on Apple product is easy. . . and inexpensive to do, depending on where you do it. There are numerous places including Staples, Batteries are Us, Office Depot/OfficeMax, Apple Stores, Batteries Plus, and many online and store front repair places which can replace the batteries while you wait. I just had a Apple MacBook Air battery replaced at the Apple Store in Sacramento's Arden Fair. . . it took 20 minutes.
As I mentioned above, our twenty or so iMacs, MacBook Airs, and MacPros at my office are perfectly capable of upgrading to OS X.11 El Capitan with full Apple support despite being up to eight years old. We are not replacing them due to any built-in obsolescence factor intended in their design by Apple. The only reason they are being replaced, and sold to other users who will get more years of useful life out of them, is that the software our office requires has evolved to be more complex and requires more speed in the processors to adequately do the job. For example it requires much more horsepower on the workstations for rendering alternative views in real-time in the 3D radiology we now use. So there really isn't any lack of OS support that will obsolete modern Macs.
In iOS devices, they do have a obsolescence that comes with time. But every mobile cellular device still works with the capability of its hardware. It is the hardware that cannot support the advances in the OS. That is not planned obsolescence. No one can plan for future advances in hardware capability.
Maybe because the have a monopoly on their own products. They can do pretty much whatever they want.
Most not so techie savy people just buy the newest.
A removable battery device - swap it out in 10 seconds and best of all you can do it yourself. I wouldn't recommend doing it yourself with apple device. Way too complicated for the average person - fragile flex circuits, etc. Like trying to fold a map.
I estimate that I have 500 reasons to complain — a bone pile of apple Ipods and ipads worth $500. Mostly dead batteries and one obsolete Ipad. And I am being fair. I would happily forgive and forget if Apple gives me $500 on my next purchase. Anything less is unacceptable and I will continue to avoid Apple.
BTW I'd be happy to ship the dead and useless devices to Apple for a credit of $500.
Please let me know where.
That sucks this Christmas I am getting a Dell
I posted the best comments at that thread.
TRUTH! and a good testament to the all around greed and cynicism from the fags at APPLE ___________ SWORD and other golden calf worshipers will be riding that turkey down in 2016!!!!!!
AAPL! will hit 73! By next year at this time
When iPod was released in 2001; iPhone in 2007; and iPad in 2010, nobody seemed to know any of those were coming.
That may be true for OS-X, It was certainly the case for my Macbook Pro when I still had it; I held onto until it met with an unfortunate accident that damaged the case (it was still mostly woorking, though!). But OTOH, I have a PC that I built which is 9 years old now. still going strong and running a new release of Ubuntu Linux just fine.
But IMHO Apple is really bad about pushing out software updates in the mobile space (iPad, iPhone) that make the old generation products slow and in some cases unusable. I moved away from the iPhone when they pushed out an OS update that rendered my iPhone 3gs virtually unusable. I am still using this iPad Air, but I am not very happy with Safari performance since a few OS releases ago.
Sorry, but that’s a load of crapola. Replacing the battery in a Lumia 640 is something the end user can do. No Apple mobile products fall into that category. Again, this isn’t an Apple thing; my Lumia 920 does not have a user replaceable battery either.
Here’s some free advice for Apple.
Offer a new Mac in the vein of a mid-tower PC, alongside the iMac. Modular, processors up to i7, expandable/upgradable and finally support some version of SLI for gaming. Offer state of the art GPUs from both NVIDIA and AMD.
For a company supporting green efforts, your PCs are not as reusable as they could be!
“AAPL! will hit 73! By next year at this time”
I’m willing to make a side bet on that. Let me know if you’re interested. :-)
So tell me, since you're an expert on Apple products, which Apple products did you own that got obsoleted by a dead unreplaceble battery? (Crickets.) Thought so, you're making it up.
My wife still uses her 2010 iPad daily. Original battery going strong for over 5-1/2 years. Still does everything she needs it to do, still has OS support. If the battery were to ever weaken, there are plenty of places that will swap in a new battery. Same goes for my iPad 2, works just fine after years of use. I still use an iPod that's over ten years old, not obsolete. How's your Zune doing? I have 15-year-old Macs that still work on the Internet, although I enjoy the speed of more recent processors. But most people want faster more recent machines, not just Apple users. There is less obsolescence in Apple products than most others in the marketplace. Sort of like Toyotas, they stick around trouble-free for many years.
Now you’ve done it.
The only way you could have known I still ride around in a buggy with our home lit by candles is that you have been spying on us.
Pay back is not going to be pleasant.
Certainly, applies to a lot of manufacturers. Ever notice there are a lot of Microsoft Surface articles about swapping failed batteries? A lot, considering it's only been out a couple years (my iPad batteries still strong after 5 years). Lots of difficulty prying open the case, dealing with lots of screws, and prying a glued battery from within the case. Certainly not an easily swapped replaceable battery in the Surface.
By the way, Microsoft Surface Pro battery replacement at (yikes!) $470.
Something you either learn or don’t.
The cutting edge sometimes does.
Now I am off to the local notgenius center to gat a customer’s iphone working again. The latest IOS9 “upgrade” bricked it for what we use it for. 30 mile trip one way and then I have to deal with some snot nose kid that wasn’t even born when I worked in Silicon Valley. Apple can kma.
83 and 1000$
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