• Bardfinn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do you want a phone that self destructs when it gets wet? Apple engineers have thought this through.

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      1 year ago

      We had phones with replaceable batteries for a long time. Many of them were waterproof, but none of them exploded on contact with water.

    • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes they have, which tells me no engineers were consulted for this statement. Waterproofing and replaceable batteries is a trivial combination.

      • 🦘min0nim🦘@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        This is simply not the case. Saying it’s ‘trivial’ is like saying it’s trivial to travel to Mars because we’ve sent things there before. Reliably sealing anything with a joint is far from trivial.

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        1 year ago

        Is this subreddit run by samshit employees or something? Nobody did waterproofing well before Apple started the trend.

    • _haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social
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      Waterproof phones with replaceable batteries are most certainly possible and have existed for over a decade at least. Sorry, but that argument is total bullshit.