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A comment on Apple’s Self Service Repair now available. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Self Service Repair now available by travisgriggs on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:47PM (#31188256)
> It's a design decision to use proprietary batteries that are difficult to change by consumers and can't be easily manufactured by third parties.

I’m honestly curious… has this ever been proven? It’s decent -and common assertion/speculation.

But I’m curious if there has ever been a high level ex engineer, or court document, or something that just states clearly “yes, a primary/convincing motivation to move to internal batteries was because of increased lock in revenue”?

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Re:Apple’s Self Service Repair now available by KerrAvon on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:55PM (#31188564)
No, it has not. And it probably is false. It is unquestionably simpler to design devices at Apple’s scale if the battery is hard to replace. Whether you think it’s worth the trade off is a different question.
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