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Subject: Re: Why are ignorant low-IQ uneducated zealots always the last to
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:38:44 -0700
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On 2024-07-15 16:29, Andrew wrote:
> Why are ignorant low-IQ uneducated zealots always the last to know
> everything the whole world already knows - and then they dispute it?
>   <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=15837&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#15837>

No link to any EU battery tests there...

> 
> The zealots are, at this very moment in a few threads, brazenly denying
> what the entire world outside of Apple religious zealots has long known.
>   <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=15844&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#15844>

There is no such thing as an "EU longevity test" for batteries.

> 
> Since Apple has always put cheap crappy batteries in devices, no iPhone
> older than the iPhone 15 comes close to the EU's durability requirement.
> 
>   <https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/ecodesign-and-energy-label/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en>
>    "Ecodesign requirements will apply to mobile phones and tablets
>     put on the EU market from 20 June 2025 onwards, including:
>     ...
>     sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand
>     at least 800 charge and discharge cycles
>     while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
>     ...

So now you're admitting that there is no test currently...

> 
> Apple's iPhone batteries are such cheap crappy garbage that even the iPhone
> 16 is reputed to only barely squeak past the EU's lifetime durability test.
>    (See cites above for details.)

There is nothing in any of the cites above that describes how Apple 
batteries have done according to the standards listed in the third cite.

> 
> Hell. No wonder your phone battery is dead; it's an Apple iPhone after all.

My phone is an iPhone 8 I've had for more than 6 years.

My battery still has 83% capacity.