>No. People are generally not educated enough about electronics to understand that batteries degrade over time. The most common way this manifests is “this phon

>No. People are generally not educated enough about electronics to understand that batteries degrade over time. The most common way this manifests is “this phone sucks the battery dies in 10 minutes zomg I’ll never buy x phone again!”. This would be a non educated (and possibly excessive) reaction, but - given the success of the iPhone - what happens in reality is that another (still non educated and still excessive) reaction happens: “this phone sucks the battery dies in 10 minutes zomg I’ll go and buy the new x phone!”.