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Apple Says Don't Buy AirTag Replacement Batteries With Bitter Coating
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iamgalt
macrumors 6502a
Can't parents just do their jobs as parents, and watch their kids to make sure they don't eat batteries? Am I weird to think that's not asking very much?
LFC2020
macrumors P6
That's a silly idea especially since they just released the AirTags and their included batteries run for an entire year. Apple would have batteries sitting on their shelves for over a year waiting to be sold.
ArPe
Suspended
Their parents dumber.
My parents told me things made from plastic and metal are not food.
Food is the stuff that tastes good.
I can’t be the only one who was told as a child, by an adult, to lick an Alkaline 9v battery to see if it still had power?!
Yep, and I still do it now.
This is why apple doesn’t allow replaceable batteries in most products
kycophpd
macrumors 6502a
kycophpd
macrumors 6502a
Exactly. I’ll never forget the day my kid tried to eat my replaceable MacBook battery in 2006. 🧐
I doubt a kid could eat a whole Macbook Pro battery. They at least need a day or two.
So obvious people aren't reading the article, but rather only the news title. That's why the reactions are silly towards Apple. What else is new? 🙄
(to paraphrase George Carlin) Whatever happened to natural selection, survival of the fittest. The kid who swallows batteries doesn't grow up to have kids of their own.
Now we have this nanny Government insanity that says kids are smart enough to figure out how to gain access to batteries in devices. Yet at the same time also stupid enough to EAT THEM!!!
Now we have this nanny Government insanity that says kids are smart enough to figure out how to gain access to batteries in devices. Yet at the same time also stupid enough to EAT THEM!!!
GadgetBen
macrumors 68000
Biggest 🤦🏼♂️ for Apple.
Your battery choice Apple. Your poor battery choice.
Your battery choice Apple. Your poor battery choice.
It’s funny to see so many comments suggesting that people just simply keep them away from children. The whole point of the tags is that you don’t know where you have left something. So how are you supposed to make sure you find it before your child does?
Make it fool proof and the world will make a better fool.
Mousse
macrumors 601
Ask again when you're a sleep deprived parent.😏
IMO, the battery choice is fine. Making the AirTag easy to open is the mistake. You only need to replace once a year, no need to have it easily replacable. Take a cue from watch makers and see how much of a PITA it is to replace a battery that needs to be replace once a year or two. If you need to replace it every week then yeah, it should be easy to replace. But once a year?
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Shirasaki
macrumors P6
As they always be. Those are not their kids or family members after all. They just won’t admit it.
DaveN
macrumors 6502a
Easy fix. Since it sounds like the issue is that the bitter coating may interfere with the electrical contacts in air tags, color the bitter coated area so the user knows which way is the proper orientation to insert the battery.
Shirasaki
macrumors P6
So what? Probably because Australia is not a “free” country like USA does?