It cost me $75 to replace my battery and have the phone be like new. I considered it worth it. Now Apple is offering to do the same for $30.

Yeah It's great. They offer $29 battery replacement until December 2018. I'll walk in and get a new one next Christmas!

https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/terms/repair/Retail_Repair_US_Terms_Conditions.html

For someone who has claimed to be writing a tell-all book for the past decade, Cody always seems to be pretty terrible at the most basic research. If the book's title isn't "#Codywaswrong" I'm cancelling my preorder.

I just trusted what I heard. It’s possible I am misremembering and they did tell me 90. I didn’t exactly look it up.

Also the “basic research” is why it takes so long. Some stuff is hard to double check if you know what I mean.

https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/terms/repair/Retail_Repair_US_Terms_Conditions.html

For someone who has claimed to be writing a tell-all book for the past decade, Cody always seems to be pretty terrible at the most basic research. If the book's title isn't "#Codywaswrong" I'm cancelling my preorder.

Planned obsolescence is ridiculous, and in this day and age of environmental concerns, it should be a punishable offense.

That's not what's going on.

Yeah I completely agree, if they actually wanted planned obsolescence it would be based on the age of the phone, not the age of the battery.

My biggest thing is the size. Even the smaller base iPhone 7 is just slightly too big. It's mostly not an issue, but there are certain apps that are difficult to use with one hand--it's just big enough that my thumb can't reach all the way to the top of the screen. There are a lot of times when I appreciate having the larger screen, too, so it's a trade off.

All phones have been too big for YEARS. If you ask me, ideal screen size is somewhere between 4.3-4.7 inches.

The reason they state makes a certain amount of sense. You just have to believe it's not complete bullshit, which I'm not actually convinced is true.

OK, no. I'm calling bullshit on this "maybe bullshit" call. It is ABSOLUTELY true that old worn down batteries can cut out under load. I've had more than 1 phone which has exhibited this exact behavior when the battery starts to go bad. As in, around the time that I start to notice it's not holding a charge as long as it should, it ALSO starts powering off unexpectedly, and it's usually when it's doing something somewhat intense.

Planned obsolescence is ridiculous, and in this day and age of environmental concerns, it should be a punishable offense.

That's not what's going on.

I went from being able to last a full day on a charge to my phone dying within 3-4 hours without being used.

If it's not possible to downgrade your OS, might I suggest looking into the iPhone SE? It's the iPhone 7 chipset in an iPhone 5 case (headphone jack and all). I love mine.

I sometimes find myself wishing I had got that instead of the iPhone 7. I don't mind the headphone jack. Very rarely I wish it had one because I left the little adapter dongle in the car or something, but it's not a huge issue.

My biggest thing is the size. Even the smaller base iPhone 7 is just slightly too big. It's mostly not an issue, but there are certain apps that are difficult to use with one hand--it's just big enough that my thumb can't reach all the way to the top of the screen. There are a lot of times when I appreciate having the larger screen, too, so it's a trade off.

I went from being able to last a full day on a charge to my phone dying within 3-4 hours without being used.

If it's not possible to downgrade your OS, might I suggest looking into the iPhone SE? It's the iPhone 7 chipset in an iPhone 5 case (headphone jack and all). I love mine.

First, Cody: Apple switches their monitors back and forth between matte and glossy almost every year, and then charges $100 extra if you want it the "old" way. They've been doing that since the first iMac, iirc.

Show me how I can get a matte screen on a Macbook Pro built after 2012…

You can't.

Also your 2007 model would not have had thunderbolt. I think you are getting confused. The first 17 inch Macbook Pro to get thunderbolt was in 2011. If you did in fact replace your 2007 with a 2012, you wouldn't need dongles… the 2012 has ethernet, usb 3, thunderbolt, and Firewire 800. Unless you got the RETINA 2012 version, in which case it would have USB 3 and Thunderbolt but no firewire.

I think your details are wrong. My guess is your 17 inch was 2011, and it was replaced with a Retina 2012. They sold the non retina 2012 until 2015, because it was so popular… because it had all the ports and a matte screen.

When I go to "about my mac" it says "Retina (mid 2012)". When I look at the ports, it has two thunderbolts and one USB on one side, and HDMI, USB, and an unlabeled slot that I believe is a microSD card reader (WHY??). No ethernet, no firewire, no disc drive.

My older mac may not have had thunderbolt, but I really thought it did. Maybe it was just the monitor port that had the exact same connection cable?

As for matte screens, well, I obviously haven't bought a mac since 2012. That sucks that they dropped the matte entirely. They had been swapping back and forth for a while there.

Stupid cell phone company.

First, Cody: Apple switches their monitors back and forth between matte and glossy almost every year, and then charges $100 extra if you want it the "old" way. They've been doing that since the first iMac, iirc.

Show me how I can get a matte screen on a Macbook Pro built after 2012…

You can't.

Also your 2007 model would not have had thunderbolt. I think you are getting confused. The first 17 inch Macbook Pro to get thunderbolt was in 2011. If you did in fact replace your 2007 with a 2012, you wouldn't need dongles… the 2012 has ethernet, usb 3, thunderbolt, and Firewire 800. Unless you got the RETINA 2012 version, in which case it would have USB 3 and Thunderbolt but no firewire.

I think your details are wrong. My guess is your 17 inch was 2011, and it was replaced with a Retina 2012. They sold the non retina 2012 until 2015, because it was so popular… because it had all the ports and a matte screen.

Anyway, my alternate method commences:

I used to own a 17" MacbookPro. I loved it. I think this was a 2007 model? I'm not sure. But it had all of the real estate space of a 17" screen plus the portability of a laptop. It also had a boatload of ports: firewire, thunderbolt, usb, etc, and a DVD-R drive (Apple calls it a "superdrive"). Anyway, one day the logic board failed. Known problem on the macs of that era (as Cody pointed out).

I took the mac in to the genius bar, and they told me it would be a $1200 repair since I didn't have applecare. Oh? How much is applecare? $300. Okay, how much will the repair be if I buy applecare first? Free. So I spent $300, bought applecare, and sent my compy off for service. When it comes back, there are green lines down my monitor. Seems something broke in shipping. Also, apple discontinued 17" monitors some years ago, so they can't replace the monitor of my computer. Their solution: I got to go to the apple store, build a laptop with whatever specs I wanted, and they'd give me that for free. I mentioned that I needed all those ports and such, and the new computer didn't have any of them except for usb and thunderbolt, so they threw in a bunch of dongle thunderbolt to whatever converters and a superdrive.

So I got a mid 2012 macbook pro, fully loaded, and a superdrive, and all these dongles and converters, for free*. Technically I paid $300 for apple care, but they applied that to my new laptop as well, so...

It's weird to think that it is now 2017 and this computer is still boss. Apple really needs to update their hardware.

If they fixed the GPU design and replaced the broken one with the new design, there would be no issue.

That's... that's not how laptop design works...

Warranty on Repairs is 90 days.

I was told 60.

I ask sincerely. If I buy a laptop on Jan 1 of 2018 it doesn’t seem reasonable to me that I’d still be using it in 2024. Or, expecting it to work without repairs, I guess. Does Apple have a 5-year warranty or something?