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Re:Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown by userbinator on Friday April 17, 2015 @10:16AM (#9394399)
The decision that Samsung took is interesting because they used to actually market the removable battery as a feature. The Galaxy series was one of the few high-end smartphones that had this.

It makes me wonder how much of the "we do this because it's what our users want" is what users genuinely want, and how much of it is actually the company using marketing to tell users what they want.

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Re:Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown by MengerSponge on Friday April 17, 2015 @11:42AM (#9395015)
How about a third option? "We do this because it's what our users say they want."

Of course, users lie, and although they say they want a replaceable battery, almost nobody actually replaces the battery. You wind up making a huge design sacrifice to implement a user-swappable battery that nobody swaps.

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