Christina WarrenMar 9

Me: I am SO angry at Apple right now for a variety reasons that I will explain in detail to anyone who asks/

Also me: I finally ordered an M5 iPad Pro (even tho that means my M2 iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil are now useless -- I can keep the Pencil for the lost iPad mini, I guess) that I get tomorrow and will probably be buying my husband a refurb M4 MBA and am also looking at getting another M4 Mac mini...

I'm the fucking worst.

Show threadJohn ClearyMar 9
@film_girl Why on earth would you need an M5 iPad Pro if you have an M2?
Show threadChristina WarrenMar 9
@john the battery is trashed and the $430 I get on it for trade-in won’t get any better so I might as well just do it.
Show threadJohn ClearyMar 9
@film_girl It’s $309 for a battery replacement (which is actually a whole unit replacement) from Apple. Seems like a justification to me… 😉
Show threadChristina WarrenMar 9

@john sure — but I have Apple Care and they won’t replace the battery because they claim it’s not under 80% (it is) and won’t even let me pay for a battery replacement.

But if I could pay for the replacement, that would be a $200 difference between the M5 and the existing unit. So I might as well get the better screen, even if I have to buy a new pencil and put off buying a new keyboard until I miss it.

Show threadJohn ClearyMar 9
@film_girl If the battery isn’t under 80% it’s not “trashed” tho really is it? ... and once it is under 80% it’s a free replacement battery if you have AppleCare.
Show threadChristina WarrenMar 9
@john no, it’s 78% per the tools I can use to show battery cycles (and it lasts under 5 hours in any event) but Apple doesn’t accept that. And I bullied them into replacing it under AC+ once but the one they replaced it with went to the current status in less than a year. And I don’t use the iPad enough for it to have lost that many cycles. But I literally can’t use it for a full day, even just having it in sleep mode. It’ll be dead by the end of a day.
Show threadChristina Warren
@john so I might as well get 40% of value 3.5 years in while I can.
Mar 9 at 6:37amIvory for iOS