Is it easier to get a new one? Apple jacked up the price of replacing iPhone 14 series batteries

Apple, depriving smartphones of basic elements in the name of ecology with one hand, is trying to push

fans purchase new generations of iPhones every fall, although the rejection of theAnnual minor improvements to the two-year iPhone cycle would reduce e-waste.What's more, Apple is so uninterested in keeping older iPhones alive longer that it has resorted to raising the cost of replacing the batteries of the entire iPhone 14 series.And she did not be modest, raising the price outside the United States: for example, to $129 in Canada and up to £105 in the UK.

This, by the way, is a whopping 45-52% more expensive than the $89 (£69) they ask forfor replacing the battery in any iPhone 13 model, but their capacity, by and large, has not changed (and in the iPhone 14 Pro Max, it has completely decreased).Given that iPhones don't lose too much in price on the secondary market in a year, with the new prices for battery replacement, the buyer will now think three times whether it would be easier to throw a little on top and buy a new generation iPhone.How this will affect the environment, which is so valuable to Apple, is a rhetorical question.

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