Originally Posted by
Sike
Apple, Google, Samsung, you name it. They're all engineered to fail and we're all nitwits for ever believing otherwise. They want you to stick with the two year upgrade cycle, even though it's not as necessary as it was, say five to seven years ago. A massive class action lawsuit would straighten them out, but it'll probably never happen.
That's a difficult argument to make when the current price for an Apple-authorized battery replacement is $29. It was $80. About a month before Apple instituted the $29 program, I had my battery replaced at the higher price. They sent me a refund for the difference six months later. I didn't ask for it. They just did it. Out of the blue one day, a check with a letter explaining what it was for showed up in the mail.