Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Apple's concern is your safety" video.

  1. I don't have to say no one should listen to what Rene Ritchie has to say because he is an Apple fanboy, apologist and fanatic that will always distort any piece of information to justify Apple practices. I have enough of his bullshit on channels like Twit. The crap he comes up with sometimes is just brainwashed cult-like talk. But just for the sake of argument, let's analyze this defense about insecure batteries, particularly about if it makes much sense to be paranoid about this. People who have dealt with tons of batteries from all procedences and all quality levels will know this, you'll need to talk to them for confirmation. If you yourself dealt with lots of lithium polymer batteries, you'll know. It should even feel kinda weird that given how potentially explosive these things are, that the number of accidents and faulty batteries outside extraordinary cases like the Note 7 really is... insignificant. In general, lithium polymer batteries are pretty safe altogether. This has nothing to do with branding, how much one company invests in it, how official it is and whatnot - it has to do with business sense, basic economics. See, whether you are a counterfeit, white label, generic or an official maker of lithium polymer batteries - it's is a highly costly, highly involved, and highly specialized process. Meaning, it's expensive as heck. People don't go around building their own DIY lithium polymer batteries in their backyards. You can search on YouTube for lithium polymer battery industry, production or whatever to see how involved the process is. It requires an investment of millions in machinery, specialized workforce, and all sorts of other things to make it happen. The last thing you wanna do as someone investing in the technology, be it to put into original branded expensive products or be it to sell as lose component that someone might re-label and re-sell as a counterfeit part, is for them to spontaneously explode at any given point of it's lifetime. Because if that happens, clients will blacklist you and all the investment you've put up so far will go up in flames with your battery. Again, your investment of millions. It is in the best interest of any lithium polymer battery industry to only sell products that are guaranteed not to spontaneously combust. You can make your batteries less efficient, you can overshoot their safety systems and false alarms, and in the worst types of practices you can even lie about it's capacity - but you will not risk a thermal runaway because that's an automatic ban and potential lawsuit waiting to happen, even in the land of no copyright China. This is why it rarely happens. Battery explosion is a problem that even people doing counterfeit, cheap, generic batteries will avoid at all costs. Because it makes no economic sense. Ok, so why did you hear about so many cases of smartphone explosions and whatnot. There are some reasons behind this. First, because it sells. Everytime a case like that happens it goes all over the news, gets covered extensively, and replicated around. Because.. it's an explosion, of course it would. But if you put things in context, if generic batteries were really a huge issue, we'd be seeing not one or two stories a week or so, but hundreds of thousands every single day. Because that's just how many of them are out there. The cheaper generic batteries that are sometime used as counterfeit for official products are everywhere in the electronics industry. Ok, now why it happens. For the vast majority of smartphone explosion cases, the culprit usually is: 1. improper handling of electronic devices. This includes stuff like shoving your phone while it's running in an enclosed space, like under a pillow, when it needs a minimum of ventilation to cool down internal components, like when it's charging. The vast majority of fire incidents happened that way. Ever heard the story of the teen who put her smartphone under the pillow while it was charging and it went up in flames? Yep, that's it. Or the guy who left his phone under layers of towels inside the car in mid-summer heat while he went for a dip in the beach? Yep. This also includes stuff like people sitting on top of their phones, damaging internal components like the battery, repeatedly over the years. This just ups the potential for a battery to blow up. Zero surprises in cases like those; 2. using shitty chargers. This here is the one thing manufacturers can cheap a lot on to the point of them being absolute crap. This happens because different than building a lithium polymer battery, building your own charging outlet circuit is pretty cheap... any backyard shop could do it with extremely cheap readily available components. They will also work plenty well for the vast majority of cases - less nowadays with USB Type-C charging and general fast charging tech. But super generic chargers are almost all USB 2. Those are so easy to do that even I could do one with enough time and practice, knowing very little about electronics. eWaste recyclers could do it as a side business. And a shitty charger might leave out protection circuits or safety components, which can put too much charge against a smartphone and battery, which can lead to thermal runaway; See how both scenarios I wrote about have nothing to do with the battery itself? It's because the vast majority of reported smartphone fires didn't happen because of faulty batteries. The exception is the Note 7, again, because Samsung made a design error. It wasn't even about quality control and whatnot - they had design errors in the battery because they wanted to put as big a battery possible in a very small space. And this mistake must've cost a helluva lot for Samsung... if it was some other smaller company it probably would've gone bankrupt. So, the biggest battery problem regarding lithium polymer batteries we had so far came from the biggest battery production company. Funny that. It's because it doesn't happen a lot. So why the heck would this suddenly be a problem? Well, because fanboys are once again trying to distort a decision that was probably about further closing the walled garden and trying to close down independent repair as a move with "security" in mind that addresses an inexistent, imagined problem. So there you go, my 2 cents.
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