Re: iFixit iPhone 16 Pro teardown

badgolferman wrote on Tue, 1 Oct 2024 16:40:22 -0000 (UTC) :

 I have no frame of reference for Android phones and
whether their lasting power is better.

Hi badgolferman,
I explain things differently to you, where all I want you to know is
*every* iPhone prior to the iPhone 15 miserably fails EU's minimum life.
Every single iPhone.
That's just a fact.
Actually, if we want to quibble, and since I'm well aware of the details,
the fact is Apple can only prove that the iPhone 15 and up meet the spec.
So the zealots, who are completely ignorant of the spec, as you know, will
claim that Apple just didn't feel like publicizing they met the spec
because, you know, battery life is "not needed" & "not wanted" after all.
With respect to your "frame of reference for Android, not only do almost
all Android phones meet the EU's minimum standard for battery life, but
many more than *DOUBLE* the EU's minimum standard for battery life.
To dig even deeper into the understanding of battery chemistry, it's not
that Android phones are explicitly designed to last longer than iPhones.
It's just that Android phones last longer than iPhones because they start
with bigger batteries - and - as I explained many times prior - the bigger
batter is the primary determinant of overall battery life.
Using low-digit numbers in my example (for the iKooks to do the math in
their heads), it doesn't matter if a phone can last for 100 hours if it
drops to below 80 percent after 5 charge cycles.
The point being that how long a phone last in a single use when new is not
the determinant of how long a phone lasts after years of use, badgolferman.
Remember batterygate?