iPhone batteries...

[Aractus]

Well because I didn't think registered Australian businesses, with a retail outlet, would do it. I also didn't think they'd be so stupid as to disregard my warning on PayPal. Something like an iPhone battery would cost at most $8 fresh off a boat in a shipping container per unit. It may be as low as $4. Without cutting one open and pricing the parts I can't know for certain, but it's somewhere in that range. So I expect a new, genuine, battery should cost $10-20. $24 at the most (150% mark-up). Apple charges $95 to change the battery - and they wipe your phone's memory and may send you a different phone back. And it takes up to a week. Up to a week for a 60 second job. AND, they don't pay Australian company tax. So I'm not going to give them my business. I can order from appleipodparts.com (UK) at a cost of about $45. At least double what the cost should be (even if I take the shipping cost off, it's still around a 300% mark-up at the very least), but they can charge whatever they like because they know that it's difficult to find their competitors that sell genuine products, and that Apple charges much more than that. For $20 a battery (fresh off the boat) it would have been a much better quality battery with a much longer life and perhaps a 10-20% higher capacity. In fact the same is true for the iPhone 5 which has the lowest battery capacity of any iProduct because they reduced the size considerably compared with the 4/4S (the 4S battery is significantly smaller than the 4 battery but it holds almost the same charge). The iPhone 4 battery's capacity is 1420 mAh, and the iPhone 4S's capacity is 1430 mAh despite being signifiantly smaller. Had Apple used a better quality battery the capacity as mentioned could have been boosted around 10-20% and furthermore it would have lasted a lot longer than 18 months without loosing capacity. But they don't want to do that, chiefly because they don't want the batteries to last. They also deliberately made them non-user-serviceable, most other phones have easily detached batteries. With the iPhone you have to open it to access the battery, but from there it's straightforward.