If you are not going to buy a new phone you must pay us anyway
Fruity cargo cult Apple is so poor after its iPhone cash cow didn’t do as well last year, it has been forced to tax users by jacking up the cost of replacement batteries.
Last year lots of Apple users decided that there was no reason to buy a new phone because the new range didn’t offer anything new. They, logically, thought that if something went wrong they could repair it.
To fix this issue Apple is raising the price of battery replacements on older iPhone models from March 1 by $20.
Apple didn’t tell anyone about the price hike, it was first noticed by 9To5Mac which appears to have greeted the news enthusiastically because the iPhone 14 line-up will not be affected. Face it if you need a replacement battery from the new range of phones there is something significantly wrong with your…