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The problem is acting like everything has to be extremes instead of acknowledging that a small change allows for a lot more options. Like why bring up a brick sized phone as a response to 'slightly thicker' except to be a contrarian?
Because you can always make the argument “it should be slightly thicker for another x% battery life” on to infinity. But actually drawing a line and saying “it should be exactly this thick because this is the correct amount of battery life” is actually really difficult.
From what I’ve seen, people want replaceable batteries because they go through their battery a lot faster than the average person. That’s always going to be a difficult sell because now you’re talking about less than half of the market.
Mobile phones are such a tiny market, no room for appealing to different needs.
Loads of companies sell loads of different styles of phones, yet replaceable batteries are quite rare nowadays. You’d think if this was such an important market niche they’d be right on it! I guess not…
No, because corporations know it's more profitable to throw away a working device and replace it with a new one.