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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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447 points hemant6488 | 1 comments | 18 Jun 25 15:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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FlyingSnake ◴[18 Jun 25 19:42 UTC] No.44312746[source]▶
Wonderful story!

We don’t give enough credit to Apple for keeping these old devices alive and kicking.

I have a similar story wherein I repurposed my ancient OG iPhone SE and gave it a new life.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/dumb-smartphone/

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dncornholio ◴[19 Jun 25 07:34 UTC] No.44316372[source]▶
I don't agree with this take at all. I had to give up my iPhone 7 because I couldn't update iOS and my banking app refused to work on the older version.

Apple would also gladly throttle your phone, see Batterygate.

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1. leakycap ◴[19 Jun 25 19:53 UTC] No.44321972[source]▶
Informed technical users should know that the alternative to Batterygate is that iPhones would randomly be turning OFF with no warning in user's hands.

When a battery is old and has low state of charge (under 25%), it is easy for a device to request more power than the battery can provide and BOOM, the screen is black.

Apple mitigated and avoided that experience for users by programming the phone to slow down when a user's old battery could not support the power needs of the device at full speed. It makes sense when you take the time to be informed about it.