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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by IndrekR on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:25AM (#15547945)
Yes there is a reason. It is called safety. There is a big difference in making a battery in phone safe to handle and separate stand-alone battery safe to handle. This includes things like puncture resistance, heat dissipation, vibration and shock test. This results in thicker/heavier housings for the replaceable batteries.

"Safe to handle" here does not mean "looks good to me," but tested against mandatory standards.

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:56AM (#15549017)
Battery acid isn't safe to handle, so it's shipped in a container. Same for a battery, if it were unsafe external to the device then there could just be a shipping caddy - remove the battery from caddy, place old battery in caddy and take for recycling. That would probably be safer than the current situation.
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