You keep talking about the market as if consumers get a vote in what Apple or Samsung build next year and not the other way around. If replaceable batteries weren’t desirable, they wouldn’t have been standard for the first 33 years of existence of cellphones. It wasn’t until the last few years when the market got stagnant that manufacturers turned to cutting features left and right in order to cut costs and increase profit.
The only phones manufacturers offer with replaceable batteries are still using the same hardware that was around when replaceable batteries were still the norm. There was never a time were you could get a Note 8 with a replaceable battery or a Note 8 with a sealed case – a true choice that one could then use to make informed statements like “the market decided”. Saying the “market decided” when every major manufacturer removed them within a single generation leaving people with little to no alternative isn’t the market deciding, it’s manufacturers deciding.
You keep talking about the market as if consumers get a vote in what Apple or Samsung build next year and not the other way around. If replaceable batteries weren’t desirable, they wouldn’t have been standard for the first 33 years of existence of cellphones. It wasn’t until the last few years when the market got stagnant that manufacturers turned to cutting features left and right in order to cut costs and increase profit.
The only phones manufacturers offer with replaceable batteries are still using the same hardware that was around when replaceable batteries were still the norm. There was never a time were you could get a Note 8 with a replaceable battery or a Note 8 with a sealed case – a true choice that one could then use to make informed statements like “the market decided”. Saying the “market decided” when every major manufacturer removed them within a single generation leaving people with little to no alternative isn’t the market deciding, it’s manufacturers deciding.