I think you’re making some assumptions there. Many consumer devices were reparable to at least some extent till relatively recently. Many phones used to have removable backplates and jellybean-part batteries because it’s cheaper to manufacture than single part cases and a custom battery pile.

All I remember how shit phones used to be. My new iphone is much better

If you remember back far enough, you might remember when Apple had the best of both worlds. The G3 Powermac, the Titanium Macbook and even the early iPods proved that manufacturers could make highly-maintainable and nice-feeling hardware. And everyone else continued to make shit anyways, Apple included.

Methinks it would be better if we stopped people from shipping pointlessly hostile features like serialized parts. Just to be sure.

And those phones died instantly from even a relatively small splash of water. Now they don’t. You can shower with a modern iPhone if you like.

It works like this. Pick two:

* replaceable battery

* ingress protection

* small size

Galaxy S5 released in 2014[0]: Water proof, replaceable/removable battery, small, wireless charging, headphone socket, microSD card & sim card slot.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S5

Yeah I always think of my old S5 when people start making nonsensical arguments how this and that isn't possible.