> Those are replaceable and cheap to replace every couple of years.
If you specifically seek out devices with cheap replaceable batteries, sure. But this isn't the case with a lot of devices.
If you specifically seek out devices with cheap replaceable batteries, sure. But this isn't the case with a lot of devices.
Source: I replaced my iPhone battery last week.
Maybe if you have a lot of money to waste, but people should have the option to choose
Also, we're talking in the context of a $1000-1200 phone for the base config. 10% of that cost for a replaced battery does not seem outrageous to me.
As someone else pointed out, the cheaper phones Apple sells have correspondingly cheaper battery repair costs.
If you pull statistics you also have to filter out the sub 150 dollar Andoid phones which may well have shorter average usage life.
Even if it were the case, it does not matter. What does matter is the amount of matter that ends up in landfills. As a matter of fact, we should be pushing for better built, longer lasting devices even if it means spending a bit more in the short term.
> It's not because the actual quality would be better.
Second-hand iPhones are all over the place here in a way that Samsung Galaxies are not, even though they are more popular. You can argue that it is not a proof of high quality, but it is at least a proof that build quality is high enough that 4 years old devices are on average in a good enough state to retain a high resale value.
> If you pull statistics you also have to filter out the sub 150 dollar Andoid phones which may well have shorter average usage life.
Which precisely is the problem. “But they were cheap” is a terrible excuse as we keep burning more non-renewable resources and shovel up heaps of electronic waste in landfills. Besides, we need to look at cost per year, not cost per device as a cheap device you have to change often is more costly over the long term. I am not saying only Apple devices can have high build quality, but it seems nobody is pushing OEMs towards that direction in Android-land.
Delay because it's more expensive? How about delay because it's good enough? My iPhone XS is just fine thank you. There's no point in upgrading it yet.
That's not snark. I want things from my phone that an iPhone can't give me.
The battery replacement ecosystem in Android land is pretty dismal.
I couldn't find anyone to replace the battery in my Google Nexus phones, every time I tried, in a major metropolitan area. Ended up having to do it myself.
You can walk into nearly any cell phone shop in the world with an iPhone and walk out with a replaced battery because the staff know them and they stock parts for them.