Apple blocks iPhone feature if you go elsewhere to replace the battery

These actions from Apple certainly makes me question if my future tech should be bought from Apple. If the T2 chip implode in the newer MacBooks and you ask for service at Apple and they blame water damage, you are effed. Nobody will be able to fix it. Check out Louis Rossman on YT and yes he has a reason to be p*ssed but what about the customer in said video?

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I was rooting for "error 53" to be a feature, because that would mean that an stolen iPhone would have been useless and people would stop stealing them (even for parts) and return them to their owners. This is what will happen with MacBooks: you got yours stollen, fry it's T2 chip and the new owner can throw it away. I've seen that video and I can't tell if it was water damage or not (I'm not a specialist and I don't know how it would look like), but I also don't think Apple will do that, because a Mac is expensive and at least one person would pay for expertise and sue the crap out of them (and it's not the trial that would be a problem but the authorities - I only speak about EU, because as I understand, the ones in US are next to useless).

its not about market share...its about apple's business practice...greedy AF...yes, i agree, they are a monoply...anyone who says otherwise is an apple azz licking worshiper

Monopoly means a single company that sells a product; we have hundreds of OEMs that sell phones.

But a monopoly isn't a requirement for anticompetitive practices.

You are right. But can you name the market you're talking about? But bear in mind that "repairing Apple products" is not a market, repairing electronic devices is one.

Why isn't it? Because you don't want to call it one? If there are businesses that do the work, and a company makes it so they can't in order to corner the market, it's anticompetitive.

I have told you why: because the market is called "repairing electronic devices" (of whatever brand).

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the origins of this story in these comments. Which is, why an approximately two year old battery can't handle basic phone functions and shuts down in the first place? Apple's solution was to use a battery counter. No problem there. But they then force you to buy the same $hit battery otherwise the counter won't work? That's just sleazy. I have a 5 year old tablet I use mostly for media with the original battery and it keeps on ticking along despite the old battery. I don't expect it to perform like new but it's never shut down on me. It's clear Apple uses inferior batteries and is doing everything possible to sustain their service revenue numbers. After all they dropped behind Oppo to number 4 in 2nd quarter sales so the decline continues.

That had nothing to do with the age of the battery but to recharge cycles. You do know that you can charge a phone 2-3 times a day and deplete 500 complete recharge cycles in 1 year or keep the phone in the charger and destroy the battery cells faster, right? PS: Oppo sells in China/Asia, so virtually nobody cares about that company.

Leo: 1. Stop splitting hairs. The age of the battery gives a rough indication of recharge cycles. 2. You can keep a phone on the charger these days Leo because the software allows it. 3. Oppo sells in India, China and MEA. Because you don't care it doesn't make the second largest phone group (BBK) irrelevant. I'm sure you used to laugh at Huawei. Now we're laughing at the iPhone.

1. No, it doesn't; I had a phone with 800 recharge cycles after less than 2 years of usage (Apple's warrants 500 with over 80% power) yet my battery was over 90%; what do you think I would have had to do about it? 2. Yes, it does, but the cells still deteriorate faster. 3. Oppo (BBK and whatever) that sell (mainly) 50€ phones in poor markets are nobody (except in those markets).

1. Don't you understand English? A rough indication, average or normal use. Duh! 2. I'm doing ok after 4 years. You must be referring to the crap in your precious iPhone. 3. BBK is nobody? Lol. Apple make $1,000 phones that are slowly becoming completely irrelevant except for lemmings like you.

1. My employees use 6s phones (I had one of my own for a year) - none of them were throttled; of course, my experience is not definitory, but I have not heard of a "average or normal" used iPhone being affected, only those that had bad batteries (and bad batteries had the ones abused - which is, again, not "average or normal use"). 2. I'm sure you do, except there is no escape from the laws of physics, no matter what the name of the device and the laws of physics clearly states that li-ion/poli molecules lose their properties when kept fully charged; you can troll all you want, but that's just how it is (even your precious Samsung perform exactly the same). 3. Have you heard of QQ? It has about 900M users but do you know anyone that uses it outside China? While Huawei is WeChat (some people use it, some don't), BBK is like QQ - nobody outside China. I agree: the 1k$ iPones are irrelevant, that's why I got the 750$ XR as my personal device.

1. It was bad enough for Apple to throttle with a universal update. I rest my case. 2. I haven't used a Samsung in 6 years so try another lame talking point. 3. QQ, Weibo etc? I bet your hero Tim Cook would love some China/Asia sales right now. Heck, he'd like any sales for the overpriced mid-range housewives iPhone. Right now BBK (Oppo/Vivo/Oneplus) are the second largest phone vendor (and probably the most innovative) in the world and your myopic assessment is naive. Google the denigration of the rise Toyota and Honda in the US. History is repeating itself. P.S. Congratulations on your $750 XR. The new ones are coming out soon so I hope you have a big tub of lube to take another one "where the sun don't shine" for another $50 increase from your deity. Ok, the last paragraph will require you to search the colloquialisms since you don't understand English properly.

1. Read it slowly, maybe it's easier to understand: no iPhone with good battery was throttled; none, zero, zilch. 2. I reformulate: "even your precious whatever brand performs exactly the same". 3. Maybe, who the fk cares what Cook would prefer? Oppo is still nobody outside China (and the world is bigger than US, way bigger). I can get this years XR for free, because that's how Apple's pricing works once you get an iPhone; let's see what it brings to the table.