Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet

Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by everdrive on Sunday October 07, 2018 @10:55AM (#18160851)

I get your point, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a user-removable battery, like you'd have in an old dumb-phone?

I know that modifies the engineering (aka, the phone must be thicker) but it's not clear to me that there's much a of a real benefit to a phone being especially thin?

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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by greedo on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:30AM (#18161032)

I don't want a removable battery, and I do want a thinner and lighter phone. The market seems to show that making iPhones thinner and using embedded batteries doesn't hurt sales.

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Re:Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet by alkonaut on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:41AM (#18161095)

I don’t think it would make much difference. An extra mm wouldnt matter much but I wouldn’t want to sacrifice any water resistance for it.

Over the lifespan (ownership) of e.g 3 years I usually replace the screen at least once, usually also some other component. Having the battery user replaceable wouldn’t make much difference, it would be 2 services instead of 3 in case the battery died.

I never replaced a battery on any of my 3 smartphones nor on any of the 4 dumbphones before them.

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