Re: Good news: Apple finally stopped putting garbage RAM in the iPhone

Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 19:23:03 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote :
 
 

Of course it's correct. The number of cycles a battery can manage is
unrelated to its capacity. It's a design feature. Doesn't matter whether
it's 10,000 or 1,000 mAh. It's simply that the 80% threshold differs.
 

but it would be an interesting discussion in and of
itself, Chris

 
Not with you, it wouldn't.

 
Chris,
Maybe you need a refresher course in arithmetic.

Doubtful. From you? Impossible.

Take two similar phones, where one has a cheap battery (obviously that's
the iPhone) and the other has a battery double its size.
 
Use those two phones similarly every day for a couple of years, charging
the iPhone every night (because you have to) and charging the Android when
it needs it (because it doesn't need to be charged overnight like iPhones).
 
Knowing that a "charge cycle" is not the number of charges, but the number
of 100% charges, add them up.
 
Which phone is *always* going to reach the degradation point first in time?

Irrelevant. You're letting your bias cloud your judgement, yet again.

The EU regs require that a battery retains a minimum 80% of its capacity
for at least 1000 cycles. It doesn't matter whether that 80% is 8000 or 800
mAh nor that the 1000 cycles take two years or two weeks of typical usage.

All scenarios are equally compliant.