[piskov]

The main issue of paying someone to teplace the battery is procuring the battery in the first place.

For example, good luck finding good apple batteries in regions where there is no official apple service.

Most Chinese parts are inferior: for example rates for max 500 cycles instead of 1000

[kennywinker]

Just to clarify something: afaik official apple batteries are “chinese” in origin.

[piskov]

Sure, but that doesn’t mean every chinese battery is the same.

For some reason there are no 3rd-party batteries of the same quality as Apple’s. And Apple doesn’t distribute them freely to other countries.

[kennywinker]

You can just say “aftermarket” or “knockoff” or even “3rd party”. They all get the same point across and don’t rely on an outdated stereotype about chinese manufacturing.

[piskov]

Stereotypes are not fiction.

Become a nation that cherishes quality and this will change.

Noone forced them to produce junk, manufacturing prowess nonwithstanding