Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones

• mark@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And probably not as intentional as most people think it is vs just laziness and maybe a lack of planning.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So nothing planned obsolescence, then?

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  • Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s always bulbs or Apple. Bulbs industry switched into LED like 15 years ago, which has 20x lifespan than “durable” filaments; and iPhones average life is 6 years whereas competitors usually went to bin in 3 years.

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    • golli@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With iPhones i think it’s less about durability (and especially in the software department they were always great in terms of longevity), but more about repairability in case something does happen.

      As far as lightbulbs go the issue with potential planned obsolescence doesn’t go way just because of the swap to LEDs. First there are a type of bulb even today that use some form of filament and second the part that gets damaged is usually some kind of capacitor or other electronic part that gets run with too much voltage and too hot. Don’t have time to watch it again, but i remember finding this video from a few years ago interesting.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  its exactly as common as people think, when most people’s phones are lasting 3 years tops.

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