Re:Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow...
by zepto on Thursday March 05, 2020 @02:48PM
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Not just capacity - robustness.
No of course there were no identical products only differing by whether the battery was replaceable.
But that is irrelevant. If it was important to people, phones without replaceable batteries would have been slower to sell and manufacturers would have adapted.
Samsung threw hundreds of designs against the wall looking for an edge, and they all failed except for the ones closest to the iPhone in design or bigger than the iPhone.
Customers did have a preference for larger phones, which Apple was forced by the market to concede, but not for replaceable batteries.
No of course there were no identical products only differing by whether the battery was replaceable.
But that is irrelevant. If it was important to people, phones without replaceable batteries would have been slower to sell and manufacturers would have adapted.
Samsung threw hundreds of designs against the wall looking for an edge, and they all failed except for the ones closest to the iPhone in design or bigger than the iPhone.
Customers did have a preference for larger phones, which Apple was forced by the market to concede, but not for replaceable batteries.