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You don't have to solder and glue batteries to control what gets put in the device. Supply chain control has zero to do with this practice.
by indymike 6y ago
You don't have to solder and glue batteries to control what gets put in the device. Supply chain control has zero to do with this practice.
- cle 6y ago> Supply chain control has zero to do with this practice. This is a completely separate issue—I don’t know Apple’s rationale for this practice. The issue we’re talking about is whether there are reasons to do it at all, and I still think there are obvious benefits for customers to making it difficult to put defective or dangerous batteries in their devices. (Just to reiterate, as a technical consumer I’d prefer to be able to swap batteries myself. But I get the tradeoffs that Apple is making, and whether they make sense or not for a given company is a complicated decision that I don’t feel qualified to judge.)