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Re:Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries b... by azinman2 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:29AM (#35555135)
If Apple hadn’t existed, do you think smartphones would all have user replaceable batteries now?
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Re:Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries b... by lancesells on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:34AM (#35555210)
It might have been slower. They seem to introduce these types of things first (maybe second) and then the industry follows.
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Re:Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries b... by danaris on Thursday April 13, 2023 @02:20PM (#35559799)
If Apple hadn't existed, "smartphones" wouldn't look remotely like they do now.

That's not to say that there wouldn't be some that have the general form factor of today's iPhone, but without the iPhone as a runaway success to copy, the rest of the market would not have standardized on that form factor to nearly this degree.

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