Steve Jobs Is A Battery Fiend
A Links entry from Saturday, June 30, 2007Steve Jobs Is A Battery Fiend→
According to an article in today’s Times, the iPhone, which has already broken the golden calf rule, seems to be breaking an unwritten rule of cell phones: you should be able to take the battery out and replace it at the store, for less than 50 dollars. The lithium polymer battery on the iPhone does not come out and wears out after 300 to 400 charges, which for many people will be after their two year warranty is up. It wasn’t funny with the iPod, and it’s not going to be any better when people find that they have to pay 80 bucks and lose their phone for weeks to get a new battery when the problem was known from the start.
Why would Apple commit such mischief? Joe Nocera, the author of the aforementioned article, probably got it right when he said that Mr. Jobs expects that people buying iPhones are going to want a new phone in two years anyway. While that may be true, it’s a shitty way to run a business.
In light of such overwhelming evidence, even a clown like Bryan Klausmeyer would have to question Steve. iHope.
Bryan Klausmeyer
As with all Apple products, wait for a Revision B. There are more problems than just the inability to remove the battery (such as the iPhone’s prioritization of scrolling over rendering, the inability to horizontally rotate the keyboard in non-Safari applications, almost no 3rd party development, the crappy Notes app, etc.)
On the other hand, these complaints don’t really amount to much given that, within a few years of development, Apple has single-handedly revolutionized the entire cell phone industry. It can’t be compared to anything that exists on the market, precisely because the technology behind it should make it something that could only be released a few years from now.
I guess if the inability to remove the battery upsets you, you could wait for Microsoft’s $10,000 table-thing…
Jeff May
Bryan, I have a question here. Does Apple pay you under the table or something? If they don’t, you should consider asking for compensation. Steve is just playing you like the rest of the world.
Bryan Klausmeyer
You’re right, surely the iPhone must be the opening salvo of a new foreboding epoch of techno-slavery……
Apple doesn’t need to pay me anything. Their products sell themselves. The same can’t be said for Microsoft (who has, twice in the past year, been embroiled in controversies relating to bribing relatively famous technology bloggers…)
LadyBoy
Finally someon sticks it to aPe-hole, what a bunch of crayons. Stick it to them, Jeff MAy.
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