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I'm all for replaceable batteries, but in practice I think they create more safety issues. Many users with old phones will choose the cheapest replacement avail
by comboy 10y ago
I'm all for replaceable batteries, but in practice I think they create more safety issues. Many users with old phones will choose the cheapest replacement available, and quality of it will likely be worse than of those shipped with branded phones.
- delecti 10y agoJust look at any grocery store checkout aisle or pharmacy, and see dozens of standardized battery sizes, from AA to 9-volt, or literally dozens of sizes of button cell batteries. If they were standardized, then rather than going to Amazon for the cheapest Chinese knockoff that mentions your phone, you'd go to the local Best Buy or whatever.
- rtkwe 10y agoUnlikely to happen. It's one of the few places that phones can differentiate themselves so manufacturers are unlikely to want to lose that option to tinker with.
- nomoch 10y agoGiven it's a clear safety issue they shouldn't be able to differentiate on that anymore than on the arsenic content in breakfast cereals.
- djrogers 10y agoI don't think you can claim that non-replaceable batteries are a clear safety issue, especially when the replacement market would be flooded with cheap junk hand grenades.
- dakotasmith 10y agoNo need for arsenic, sugar content in cereal is an unregulated public safety issue http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/sugar-rush-why-we-cant-trust-cereal-companies-to-self-regulate/258845/ http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/sugar-rush...