Unfortunately, I have a fear that it would also lead to various defects like fast swelling batteries, undersized batteries, defective cells being used, and perhaps even more battery explosions.

I’m not saying it’s guaranteed to happen with 3rd party batteries, and I’m also not saying that Apple’s own stuff is free of faults, but I kind of like some level of control for this.

Then again, what’s to stop one from hiring a non-Apple approved place to have a battery replacement? Won’t there just be one warning text in the battery page under settings? Unless I remember wrong, there’s no other penalty.

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