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iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
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Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't a solution. It's a trade off like every other decision.
Immagine having a car whose gas tank you are not allowed to refill...
Besides the fact that car/device analogies are always flawed, yours is approaching it from the wrong angle in the first place. The "tank" is the physical battery, and we "refill" it by recharging it. Apple wouldn't stop its users from recharging the phone, that would be insane.
To try to salvage your analogy, I'll put forth an anecdote. Last year I restored my deceased father's 1988 Bronco II. One of the issues it had was low fuel pressure, which I narrowed down to the in-tank fuel pump (the Bronco was over-engineered and had two pumps, one in the tank and one on the frame). It wasn't able to push fuel fast enough for the engine to run at top performance. Sound familiar? So I had two choices, replace it myself or take it to a shop, kind of like how you can attempt to replace your phone's battery if you know what you're doing, or take it to a repair shop and let a pro do it for a fee. I'm a competent shadetree mechanic, so I did it myself and saved a few hundred dollars, and it is back to normal operation again.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#223I feel like more transparency would have been welcomed, but aside from that this is a "no win" situation, since you have to pick a winner: - Do you degrade performance but leave screen-on time relatively unchanged? - Do you degrade screen-on time but leave performance relatively unchanged? Most Android devices seem to do the opposite (lose screen-on time, but keep performance relatively unchanged). Different people w…
The interesting fact is that Android 7+ scales down the UI effects in case of bad battery life and I suspect even on bad battery status.
iOS could do the same, scaling down those useless effects and transparencies, boosting performance and guaranteeing a more qualitative experience.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#224I feel like more transparency would have been welcomed, but aside from that this is a "no win" situation, since you have to pick a winner: - Do you degrade performance but leave screen-on time relatively unchanged? - Do you degrade screen-on time but leave performance relatively unchanged? Most Android devices seem to do the opposite (lose screen-on time, but keep performance relatively unchanged). Different people w…
This is not a binary choice. If Apple had had good intentions, they could have (a) set back the clock speed to 100% when plugged in, so you can at least use you phone properly when it is not using the battery, (b) provide a setting for users to choose between the two choices you provide, (c) tell users that a battery change will fix the slowness rather than making them infer that they need a faster phone.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Know how I can tell you haven't designed any consumer products with a battery, replaceable or otherwise? This is the engineering equivalent of saying, "Why doesn't someone just go to the Middle East, sit down at a round table with with the Israelis and Palestinians and Sunnis and Shiites and rebels and Baathists and Saudis and ISIS members and refugees and all those other guys, and help them work out their difference…
Wow, Nintendo in the 1980s must have had Godlike powers, then: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=donkey+kong+battery+cover&...
Please don't link to google searches. Everyone sees different results.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't a solution. It's a trade off like every other decision.
Immagine having a car whose gas tank you are not allowed to refill...
Imagine a car with a gas tank that shrinks over time, and whose top speed drops accordingly.
Imagine that some cars allow the gas tank to be changed by the user. But this one doesn't.
Imagine the company that makes the car never mentions the shrinkage or the gradual reduction in top speed, and has no program or system that allows you to fix this - beyond buying a newer car.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Immagine having a car whose gas tank you are not allowed to refill...
Imagine a car with a gas tank that shrinks over time, and whose top speed drops accordingly. Imagine that some cars allow the gas tank to be changed by the user. But this one doesn't. Imagine the company that makes the car never mentions the shrinkage or the gradual reduction in top speed, and has no program or system that allows you to fix this - beyond buying a newer car.
>Imagine the company that makes the car never mentions the shrinkage or the gradual reduction in top speed, and has no program or system that allows you to fix this - beyond buying a newer car.
They'll replace the battery for you, or there are a ton of 3rd party places that'll do it.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple has decided that people want to buy razorthin phones and there is just not way to fit a large battery in there. I wish there were phones built like the old IBM thinkpads. Bulky, square, ugly but also indestructible and fully user servicable with replaceable batteries.
Not thin; light. Phone makers make phones lighter so that people can hold them up longer before their hands get tired. A battery is massy, however dense it is, whatever the shape. You can only add so much battery before your phone gets too heavy to comfortably hold. (Unlike, say, an external camera lens, which increases volume but not really mass.) Thinness is just a side-effect of lightness, because the alternative—…
iPhones have been gaining weight since 6.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
They offer bigger batteries in the form of the Plus and now the X. They’ve obviously determined that it’s not worth it on the regular iPhone. I guess their surveys and stuff show that their customers would rather have the thin phone, on the whole.
The X has worse battery life than the plus so i got the 8+.
Really? I know it had more than my 7. I guess I misremembered.
Re: iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
#230Seems like everyone is forgetting the #1 failure in older phones. With today's technology phones are very power efficient, the manage a rather amazing number of circuits with different functionality. Things like CPU, GPU, display, backlight, battery monitor, accelerometer, gps, compass, bluetooth, wifi, wan, camera, NFC, microphone, dsp, light senors, proximity sensors, etc. The vast majority of those circuits are sl…
This is very enlightened. As a consumer, I personally do not care so much for a modular phone, yet I do pretty much care about maintaining the same level of performance for my current device. Swappable batteries to increase performance is/could be a good selling point for modular phones.
One of the main reasons I bought the LG V20. With easy to swap batteries, I plan to replace them every year or two and maintain a good screen time.