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factorialboy 6 days ago

> I'm curious who needs more battery life than the iPhone...

You aren't curious at all. You have formed an opinion. :)

Apple recognizes the deficiency, hence they created the battery accessory which they would love to up-self.

Step 1: Reduce battery life

Step 2: Sell battery accessory, profit.

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freehorse 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I already carry a power bank with me when I know I will stay long away from home. So in some way, one does not need to pay apple for that. I also know people who carry some monster phones with them with huge batteries that last for several days, but I would rather carry a power bank than forcing the extra weight in my pocket.

Also, with android you have more options to optimise for battery life (eg low refresh rate and resolution) that are great if this is what you want to optimise (and did this for some time), but apple would never sell an iphone like that, and also ime these are becoming rarer in the android market too. If the sole alternative is just bigger batteries, I would rather not have this bigger battery attached to the phone all the time even if this is suboptimal for some other reasons.

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r0fl 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Two things can be true at the same time

I can have an opinion that phones have sufficient battery life AND be curious what kind of person needs more than the provided battery life

The example of someone hiking so far does not make sense since a phone is idle when hiking and will last the entire time easily

	▲	freehorse 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In a hike you probably want to use your phone to look up the map/gps location, take photos etc. Ime iphones are struggling with this use case a bit without a power bank. Putting them in low power and airplane mode, while using a lightweight app for navigation with downloaded maps helps a lot, though it is still not gonna take you as far as other phones with larger battery life. I would never go for a hike where I know I need my iphone without a power bank with me. But not doing these and using google maps to navigate will not take you very far into the hike at all.