Oh that’s going to leave my husband’s 14 Pro Max out. That thing is down to 90% and it’s not a full year just yet.
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iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max Feature More Repairable Design With Removable Back Glass
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And then what? The commission isn’t elected but employed by the parliament. So they don’t have any elective pressure to not do their jobs.
iMessage have already been dictated to be made compatible with smaller companies if they’re requested.
And the dictation is to be removable with common tools with no special tools
I love how this was implemented exactly * checks calendar * two days after repairing the shattered back on my 14PM = getting basically an entirely new phone, save for the screen and camera. I mean, thankfully I pay for AppleCare+ because I don’t trust myself, so cost wasn’t an issue, I’m just glad they’re working towards better repairability. it is frustrating on the consumer end to think of the potential e-waste that came from that repair.
Replaceable batteries is possible, what do they mean by removable batteries ?
like plastic phones ?
then they should say good bye to water resistance.
design does not have to very different.
i don't think you work in manufacturing.
So replaceable batteries, water resistance at the same time ?
When they say replaceable do they mean user replaceable ?
when a person drops his phone then they will be searching for parts for like 3 hours, finally give up and buy a new phone becasue he doesnt know what parts are missing.If you can replace the battery you may as well add back the the expandable storage bay and keep the sim tray - just in case. Then add the easily removable plastic back cover! Like going back 15 years.
Actually I bought a phone like that two years ago and you can still buy it! You can also remove the modem if you want. It has these tiny switches where you can turn off the microphone and the cameras, modem and so on. All for 150 bucks….. And USB-C!
Fully EU compliant!
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Removable by a consumer with commercially available tools and with zero software restrictions allowing people to replace it with compatible batteries.
Nothing says it must be plastic or otherwise. Just replaceable.
There zero reason to believe that to be the case. There’s nothing that makes a soldered ssd or ram faster than a replaceable one.
You aren’t working in manufacturing yourself ether. You have a billion examples with no compromises.
Yes water resistance is one of the easiest thing to implement and have been done for years.
people should be able to install any software they want on their phones, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS.
every phone should have 240 Hz refresh rate screen (health concern, reduces eye strain)
MS office & Libre office should work on every phone.
every phone manufacturer should offer one small phone at least.
all mobile devices should be water resistant.
all mobile devices shouldn't break when dropped.
User replaceable:
Face ID (including third party manufacturers, Apple should share the technology with Chinese manufacturers so that they can manufacture cheap Face ID hardware),
RAM, SSD
Processor (should share technology with Chinese manufacturers so that they can make processors for cheap),
Camera, Motherboard, Display
Battery (including third party manufacturers)
you want more ?
“making them the first iPhone models that can officially be opened from both the front and back sides of the device for repairs since the iPhone 4S”
It sounds like this is saying the 4S could be opened from the front, which could not happen. You removed the back, then everything inside, then screws along the edges to release the screen. Maybe they are saying it is the first iPhone since the 4S to have a removable back which would be true. A very welcome change regardless.
It sounds like this is saying the 4S could be opened from the front, which could not happen. You removed the back, then everything inside, then screws along the edges to release the screen. Maybe they are saying it is the first iPhone since the 4S to have a removable back which would be true. A very welcome change regardless.
By integrating some digital components on the back plate, Apple can seriously cripple third parties from doing replacements because they can simply make an internal app required to calibrate a component or some chip in the part must match a code in other chips on the phone unless you have Apples tools to sync them. Exactly as they do with MacBook screens these days making swapping not possible on modern MacBooks. I would not be surprised if the back glass will be easier for Apple to repair but hurts 3rd parities who do repairs by exchanging parts from other iPhones to do their repairs. What purpose would preventing replacement of the back from a different iPhone? None, but Apple has done that before.
The Mac Studio has a removable SSD and there is no performance hit.
Easier repairs are always good. But don’t think Apple will reduce repair fees
You forgot that the iPhone15 and 15Plus still only support USB 2 over that new USB-C port.
USB 2 came out in 1999. That's 24 years with the same data transfer speeds.
USB 3 came out in 2008. That's the year the iPhone 3G was released.
Not only did Apple not update to USB-C, they also didn't upgrade to USB 3 even when they changed to Lightning in 2012.
oh no! my 0.000000001ms performance hit!
Paying 4x the actual value of RAM/SSD storage is totally much preferable!!
They already can.
Why?
Already the case
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Why?
It already is, Apple isn’t the one manufacturing the parts, they have Chinese manufacturers building them or buying it from other companies such as Samsung for the battery, ssd, ram and screen or TSMC for chips, Sony for the cameras etc etc.
Only thing preventing repair shops and users from replacing the components is the inability to purchase these spare parts independently.
Want more what? Repairable devices? Yes why not. Especially the ability to put in a new battery of camera etc without my phone disabling functionality for zero reason. Especially when the reasoning is to prevent reselling of the parts on the black market because… you can’t buy genuine parts.you want more ?
They aren’t. These are intentional designs choices. And designs they have finally fixed throughout the iPhone lineup with this year’s launch.
Only two things remain for full legislative compliance, removing the need to pair the parts( would be acceptable if new unpaired parts could just be installed) unless the part comes from a reported stolen iPhone.
And the need to use heat energy to remove the screen and back plate.
And when it comes to their computers they would just need to as the ability to expand the existing ram. The ram can still be soldered to the CPU, but including a LPDDR5 or equivalent interface to ad more memory would be better.
Because currently what the computer does when the soldered dedicated ram runs out memory the internal storage will instead be used and the system slows to a crawl.
As the speed is orders of magnitude higher for the ram.
- not mentioning that sure, NVMe are fast, but 7GB/s~ is nowhere near 50-80GB/s DDR5 can handle for single up to 128GB/s In double channels.
- but it gets funnier with IOPS:
- top of the line PCIe 5 NVMe drives can handle ~ 2 000 000 IOPS or transfers per second, so - 2 000 000 mT/s = 2 000 kT/s;
- your basic 3200MHz DDRAM 4 stick can handle 3200 MT/s, so 3 200 000 000 IOPS. Yeah. And with DDR5 it's even funnier, it can handle 4-8,000 MT/s = 7 600 000 000 IOPS. That's nowhere close.
- top of the line PCIe 5 NVMe drives can handle ~ 2 000 000 IOPS or transfers per second, so - 2 000 000 mT/s = 2 000 kT/s;
So as you can see irrespective of how fast the soldered unified RAM is the storage will always be slower than using dedicated RAM in the Mac Pro or Mac Studio.
Well unlikely as they didn’t do that with the iPhone 14, and it will also be banned in the future as I can see it biting them in the ass.
Well that’s quite lazy by Apple as they knew this was coming for years, but the A16 only have usb 2.0 controllers integrated, while the a17 have USB 3.
EU law doesn’t impact American companies. It only affects products that is intended to be sold on the EU market.
American companies just happen to follow suit to sell us goods that complies with the law. If they don’t like it they don’t need to sell it here.