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    But it comes to a point where the additional cost for parts and engineering aren’t worth it.

    $100 for a flashlight with 10% the lumens for being on a single AAA would hardly beat out one that puts out the same max lumens for $5.

    Walking a trail at night that functionality would be absolutely worthless and be dangerous even to attempt. Oh it’s okay it works on this extra AAA I have….

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      I don’t own iPhone and don’t know how it does not work with microphone broken, but I would hope that everything supposed to work as long as it doesn’t require microphone.

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          That’s not planned obsolescence though. Your printer/scanner isn’t made obsolete because you run out of a consumable portion. I mean yes, it’s purposely disabled to force you to buy more ink, but buying ink instantly restores the functionality. It’s super anti-consumer behavior for sure.

          If your printer was made to perform worse over time to force you to replace the entire device, that would be planned obsolescence. Like devices with non-replaceable batteries that degrade over time.

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        You would hope, yes. Unfortunately that’s exactly the kind of thing they do

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        Sure, they can also make the camera a microphone for when microphone A stops.

        Where is the line and and at what cost point? I like how the conversation went from batteries on a light to iPhones lmfao.

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          How does one turn a camera into a microphone? Also the thing being discussed is that one part of the whole not working shouldn’t cause the whole to stop working.

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            But in doing so increases costs and can create even more dangerous situations they could be putting them up for liability wise.

            But yes make everything about iPhones because they “bad” lmfao.

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              Sorry, but that’s a bullshit. What kind of liability? Why other manufacturers don’t have liability problems when it happens to them?

              You are drinking Apple kool-aid.

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                Uhh they do. They get litigated all the time because stuff doesn’t work the way people expect it. I have also explained it in my other comments.

                I’m sorry you live in this magical bubble where everything is perfect and people don’t sue because something came with dead batteries.