Dell has been protecting against 3rd party laptop batteries for a while now. Add Apple to the list also.
With the printer cartridges, you can go ahead and argue that they are giving away the razor and over-charging for the blades... But with the batteries?? Get serious! These are $1-2k laptops with $50 replacement batteries. There is a consumer visibility issue. When the laptop battery dies after an hour of use while working on your term paper, the consumer tends to blame the laptop manufacturer, not the battery manufacturer. They have a real incentive to keep crappy batteries out of their products... Besides the fires!
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Scott Hughes @ Dec 19th 2005 12:03AM
Dell has been protecting against 3rd party laptop batteries for a while now. Add Apple to the list also.
With the printer cartridges, you can go ahead and argue that they are giving away the razor and over-charging for the blades... But with the batteries?? Get serious! These are $1-2k laptops with $50 replacement batteries. There is a consumer visibility issue. When the laptop battery dies after an hour of use while working on your term paper, the consumer tends to blame the laptop manufacturer, not the battery manufacturer. They have a real incentive to keep crappy batteries out of their products... Besides the fires!