Re: Why is the battery soldered into the IPhone ? Bitch ! ;)

On Aug 1, 3:52 am, Robert Baer <robertb...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Skybuck Flying wrote:
Hello,

(Apple sued over IPhone ! Bitch ! ;))

I knew Apple would get sued over this as soon as I read about this battery
issue.

One question on my mind is:

Why is it soldered in ?

Why can't the battery simply be removed ?

Very strange.

Bye,
Skybuck.

*NOT* strange; What do you not understand about the (outside) warning
"No user serviceable parts"?
If it is soldered in, there is at least one damn good reason: to
prevent idiots like you from messing with the goods.

Well, it is actually VERY strange why people are making such a big
fuss over this. When Handspring came out with the Visor Edge (which
IIRC predates iPods by several months) nobody complained that it
doesn't have user replaceable batteries.

OK, so that's not a phone but when later Palm released the Treo600
built-in, non user replaceable batteries, nobody complained. But
suddenly when Apple releases the iPhone without user replaceable
batteries it gets sued and state governments (well, at least one state
government) start asking about it ... well over 3 years after
precedent.

If you try to rationalize it by saying that the iPhone is expensive it
must be noted that the Treo 600 debuted at $449 subsidized, just $50
shy of iPhone.

Another strange thing I find is that some of the loudest voices on the
net complaining about the iPhone are people who doesn't own and
doesn't plan to own one. Is "Apple bashing" the new "Micorsoft
bashing" these days?

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