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To: Paul Senior who wrote (71188)	9/23/2022 3:37:17 AM
From: bruwin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78652

"My Apple cell phone won't hold power" As far as I'm aware the battery in an IPhone can be replaced as rechargeable batteries in just about anything eventually lose their ability to retain their charge as long as they were able to do when they were new. Needless to say, replacing an IPhone battery is best done by authentic IPhone "technicians" as there is a special material required to reseal the phone and a special process that goes with it, or so we are told.

To: Paul Senior who wrote (71188)	9/23/2022 6:14:08 AM
From: Spekulatius	Respond to of 78652

My Apple cell phone won't hold power (planned obsolesence?). You can get a new battery installed at the Apple Store, I have An Apple XR (10, 2018 build) and plan to do so. I think it’s $50 when I did that with my Apple 8 phone before giving it to my son. My son I bereits out old Apple phones and is quite happy with them. We always get the battery replaced befor doing so.

To: Paul Senior who wrote (71188)	9/23/2022 6:47:28 PM
From: petal	2 Recommendations Recommended By Eric Bramble Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78652

I don't own, neither do I plan to buy, AAPL stock. I was talking about the company only – indeed, not even the company as a whole, but the computers alone. I actually hate the phones. I'm a Samsung man myself; way better battery (which doesn't wear out), phone doesn't break when you drop it, costs 1/10 of an iPhone (a new, fully functioning phone costs about $100). When Apple removed the 3,5mm headphone jack, and introduced that completely unnecessary little "plug-in cord", that was it for me. But people keep buying those ridiculously overpriced phones – they keep gaining market share in US and other rich countries... Many people no doubt stick with iP because they have all their passwords saved in the "Apple ecosystem", and are used to the layout etc. etc., I believe. Out of sheer laziness and perhaps nostalgia. They are locked in, and can't be bothered to try to break free. I really can't see any other reason why people would go for an iPhone. This image really says it all, IMO; a completely useless thing, invented solely as a way for Apple to squeeze the suckers for some extra money... MSFT has similar lock-in effects. Of course, their monopoly on business IT was inherited from IBM, as Paul Graham points out in this read-worthy 2007 article: paulgraham.com. Still going strong, it seems. ,