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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Why would they make it worse

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Due to the risk of battery fires, Google said that devices with more than 400 charge cycles could see their capacity and charging speed drastically reduced.

    Apparently they design phones that'll last just over a year before self-igniting.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does 400 charge cycles really amount to just over a year of use for most people? I’m assuming one cycle means a full power cycle, not just a top up.

    For reference (and I understand it’s a bit apples to oranges) I’ve had my iPhone 15 since Dec 2023 and charge it every night and it’s currently showing 125 charge cycles.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Becsuse that's what Google does now. They make things worse. They got bored of making things good.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    I love how they just make things worse indiscriminately now. Like you'd expect that if a company turns evil, they make things worse for profit, but google often doesn't even care about that and makes everything worse randomly.

    The clearest example I have is the maps app, which used to let you tap once to clear the search and directions bars off the screen. They removed that in one update for absolutely no fucking reason, so now a third+ of the screen is blocked at all times. If that space displayed ads or something at least I'd get that they were making an app shittier for profit, but nowadays more often than not everything just seems to be shitty because they don't give a fuck anymore.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh well they were forced to acknowledge a problem that needed a fix and what they did was they asked Gemini how do we fix this which Gemini had zero problems at all, not even an inconvenience, in giving them it's fix so that's what they went with without a single further thought employed in the matter

    They really liked it when the response started with it's super easy

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