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A comment on European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries. Parent comment
Removable battery phones are more difficult to design.
Why would a company do something that's more difficult, absent a mandate to do so?
Modern smartphones are not the pinnacle of technical possibility -- they're an optimization between feature and price.
A feature could be beloved by customers but add another $1 to smartphone build costs, and still be cut by every remaining manufacturer in the market.
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Removable battery phones are more difficult to design.
Why would a company do something that's more difficult, absent a mandate to do so?
Modern smartphones are not the pinnacle of technical possibility -- they're an optimization between feature and price.
A feature could be beloved by customers but add another $1 to smartphone build costs, and still be cut by every remaining manufacturer in the market.