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Comment by hrktb | Hacker News Reader

Apple is punished for trying to push the issue under the rug, perpetuating a situation that was beneficial to their revenue.

It would be the same if an ISP silently slowed a user's internet when detecting their ISP provided router is getting flacky. That's not the right way of handling this, users should be warned of the issue so they can act accordingly, and not stay in the dark until someone discovers the hack.

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The alternative would be to have phones turn off when they requested more power than was available. What do you think would cause people to want to replace their phones faster?

Part of the issue was that replacing the phones was not needed, getting new batteries was enough (that was initially a 85$ replacement I think, that got down to 29$ after the issue was made public if my memory is correct. Don't quote me on this)

Case in point, when Apple explained the issue and their hack, people got way more interested in checking the state of their battery (wether they were affected or not), and there was a rush to replace used up batteries.

I tried to replace mine 2 months after the announcement, there was still a 3 weeks backlog of replacements.

Also to note: those phones were still turning off in some circumstances. It wasn't like Apple's hack completely removed the need to replace the faulty battery.

> users should be warned of the issue so they can act accordingly, and not stay in the dark until someone discovers the hack.

What part of this sentence did you not understand?

It's about WARNING the user before they do the upgrade so they 1) know what will happen and 2) know how they could fix it.

There’s no need to be condescending.

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