Re: Placeholder for Arlen the Apple troll - crying that the mean ole' EU did not ban any iPhones.

On 23/06/2025 15:26, Alan wrote:
 

'but Apple chose to voluntarily derate scores to a “B” grade to minimize
the probability that a third-party tester interpreting the regulation
differently would achieve a lower grade. We also downgraded scores for
the Repeated Free Fall Reliability Class for the same reason.'

 
The lousy b score was calculated in part by dividing battery endurance per
cycle duration, in hours, by the battery capacity, in watt-hours.
 
Apple explained that their marketing tests that nobody else could reproduce
showed internally that it was an a but nobody could reproduce that a so
it's a b due to apple internal measurements that they widely market as
truth were not even close to being objectively independently reproducible.
 
But it's not only the iphone battery that has a lousy rating.
Apple iPhones have a c reliability rating.
Again, despite what marketing would have you believe.
 
And a c repairability rating.
Again, they explained they were advertising higher than reality showed but
since nobody could reproduce the internal iphone tests objectively outside
of apple, they had to claim the rating that others would have found for it.
 
battery = b
reliability = c
repairability = c
 
Compare those iphone ratings to samsung phones in the same price range.