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Want to read the most interesting and shocking sentence of perhaps your entire week. Here it goes: “If your iPad requires service due to the battery’s diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee.”

Yup, you read that right. According to Apple’s webpage, having a dead battery on your iPad will not only make you eligible for a new battery, they’ll simply replace the iPad itself (keep in mind, it still costs $99, but unlike the iPhone, you get a new device, not just a new battery). While this is certainly intriguing, it does raise some points.

For one, the reasoning behind this may because the solid structure of the device makes it too hard to open up and replace the battery to even make it worth it. Perhaps replacing the entire iPad is more cost and time friendly to Apple. However, this also poses the question of how environmentally safe this really is. Instead of having a battery go to waste, Apple is presumably having to find a way to recycle the entire device. Either way, this could be considered good news for consumers, depending upon how you look at it. It’s a change in the way Apple has been doing things, though, that’s for sure.

Via [Engadget]