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Originally Posted by gresch
Despite the fact that he didn't drop trow on you and start conversing with you directly from his butt, he was indeed talking out of his ass 
His advice is great for NMh based batteries, and idiotic for lithium. you can google it if you wish. |
OK, I googled it. I found Apple's page for improving iPhone battery performance. There's a whole list of things and one of them are "For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally.
Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down)." So I guess the advice that B-Line got from the Apple employee to let it run down matches this recommendation...
Apple's
iPhone battery link
And gresh, you are correct. As a rule, these lithium batteries should not be run down. My battery's performance was just unacceptable and I wanted to try running it down. Otherwise I was going to have to return it to the Apple store for a replacement...