Moved to Forum: Original Link
Apple to offer $29 battery replacements for a year as a way to apologise for slowing down of iPhones.
Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, starting in late January and available worldwide through December 2018.
https://www.apple.com/au/iphone-battery-and-performance/
Thanks thewinchester for the AU link.
Mod: Insufficient details for upcoming deal. This deal is missing (1) A price for Australia (the price won't simply be the US price converted to AU $) (2) A definite start date.
This offer should therefore be re-posted as a deal in the future, once these details are known (AU price & start date). Moved to the forums so discussion can continue.
@dragonindespair: Well, I did get the 7+ so I guess it worked. Got the X as well, but compared to the competition it looks like apple is playing catch-up again. Whilst its a nice phone, its still got a lot of catching up to do so the X is going back. What really cemented it was this battery-gate issue because when I raised it back when it first happened, they just shrugged me off and tried to make me jump through their support hoops when I knew all along the battery was (profanity). Even got to the point where I could extract the battery logs and see the voltage dipping below 3.5v. It was always under high discharge conditions, eg when outside, autobrightness maxes out and with a little bit of processor demands, the battery was unable to accomodate. If used at night when autobrightness was near 0, the issue didnt happen. Internal resistance does that. Problem is this was occurring prematurely, under 200 cycles on the battery. Even LiPo batteries used in RC/drones etc can do more and they are subject to way harsher conditions and discharge rates.
Of course try explaining this to a CSO on the other end who's only line is "run the apple diagnostic".
I figure for that amount of money, I should not need to be having to go to such lengths, I should simply be getting a satisfactory outcome first time (like back when the iPhone 4's were out) without having to stuff about with all of that. If i want to geek out, thats what android is for.
Yes its a bit of a rant but when you fork out $1500+ for a phone, you expect better. Apple doesn't seem to share my view. Now they can get sued.