You can take your iPhone to any authorized service provider for a replacement battery. Apple charges around $99 for it. It’s a trade off to make the device better sealed to increase waterproofing.
And if you want to do it yourself, you can:
Sorry, but this article is mostly bullshit. Apple is a leader in recycling their products, and in making them out of non-plastic materials like aluminum and glass. They take back their products at their stores for recycling, and have even built machines that disassemble them into individual parts. iPhone has one of the longest lifespans in the industry — receiving updates long after competitors have abandoned models of similar age. Repairability has also been improved on the recent iPhone models.
Apple adopted both USB C and RCS. These are ridiculous talking points.
Airpods — yes, the design isn’t serviceable, they’re made from Virgin plastic and their tiny batteries aren’t replaceable. I agree that should be improved. But at least Apple recycles them for free.
If you really want to bitch about something hard to repair — look at the current iMac design. Again though, it’s mostly aluminum and glass.
I wonder what the investors like Condé Nast/Advance Publications think of this?
There was an article going around that explained how to disable internet connections on various smart TVs. I wish I could find it.
For TVs with Roku built in, the solution was simply to select the option for no internet connection during initial setup. If you’ve already set up your TV, you go to settings and reset it like you’re getting ready to sell the device. That puts you back to initial setup where you can skip the network connection option.
What you can’t do on the Roku tv is tell it you have internet, but then try to use some sort of firewall or network connection to block it from phoning home. The front light on the tv will blink, and when you turn the tv on it will complain that it can’t connect. You have to choose no internet on initial setup if you want it to act like a “dumb” tv.
NetNewsWire works great for me.
Right. Everyone knows it’s a series of tubes! You’d think his fellow republicans would have explained this to him.
Where do you think the Internet came from? It was a government project that began as Arpanet. And we would never have had it opened to the public if it wasn’t for Al Gore.
I’d say auto stop features and multiple camera views on reverse are a good selling point of a car. I certainly regret not getting the overhead camera view on the vehicle I purchased (and the blind spot indicators which don’t apply to pedestrians).
I’d also like to see the infra-red windshield overlays make it out of the prototype stage. This night vision/heat vision feature helps to alert you to deer, dogs, wildlife, and those dumb asses that insist on walking down the road at night in dark clothing in my neighborhood.
Nuclear might be better than coal or fossil fuels, but it’s still dirty and expensive.
Spent fuel recycling costs a fortune. Only France is currently invested in it.
“In 1996 it estimated that reprocessing of existing used nuclear fuel could cost more than $100 billion.”
Most waste is stored in underground salt mines and requires special transportation, handling, and storage. That storage includes providing space between the spent rods to prevent interaction (you can’t just stack them compactly together). So while you may read that we produce half a swimming pool worth of waste, it takes a lot more space to store the spent rods than a “grocery store”. We produce about 2000 metric tons of spent rods per year. In addition, there’s all the other waste created when you run a nuclear plant — that includes garments and other materials. That adds up to “160,000 cubic feet (4,530 cubic meters) of radioactive material from its nuclear power plants annually”.
Disposing of spent rod storage casks costs $1 million per cask.
And then there’s the waste produced when decommissioning plants, or when plants go awry.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
There’s a great video DW tv did on reprocessing and still having to store spent nuclear waste here:
There’s nothing clean about fission. It produces expensive poisonous waste that has to be stored for 1000 years. And in the US, no one wants it in their state, driving the price up further. And when you’re unlucky, you end up with superfund sites like Fukushima and Chernobyl.
Look into Plex. They are spinning their photos and music streaming into separate apps from video. PlexAMP is already out. You just have to set up a NAS or sever with port forwarding on your home network. I use an old spare PC as my server and it works great.
It’s like Nadella wants people to stop using windows.
Do PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo next.
If Microsoft is paying for it, why do they need a loan?
Will Microsoft also be paying for any nuclear waste disposal?
Sounds like a bubble.
More brilliant decisions from Satya Nadella. 🙄
A product nobody wants or needs. Here’s hoping the rumors are misunderstanding what this is and it’s just a speaker dock for iPhones and iPads or something.
A lot of it is just propaganda bots at this point.
The problem being that the ones moving on to other jobs are the actual talent. Unlike a targeted layoff, this leaves Amazon with the employees no one else wanted.
Yes. A repair website would rather you repair your phone than recycle it. You are free to do that.
And if you don’t want to go through ifixit to do that, you can go through Apple for the first five years of the product life (7 in California) and even do the repair yourself:
https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair