You don't have to toss the phone. You can replace the battery with aftermarket one yourself, pay someone to do it for you or sell the Nexus 6 on second-hand mar

You don't have to toss the phone. You can replace the battery with aftermarket one yourself, pay someone to do it for you or sell the Nexus 6 on second-hand market so that the new owner will deal with it. There are still legal issues, mainly that the manufacturer does not provide replacement parts and aftermarket ones infringe on manufacturer's intellectual property so you only get ones produced in shady chinese factories and good luck importing them in bugger quantity. What really needs to change are the IP laws so that --when manufacturer fails to provide replacement parts or charges outrageous price-- the IP becomes free-for-all shortly after the product release. Much bigger problem are blatant anti-repair practices - be it kindle buybacks, sonos "brick your old device to get a discount for new one" or manufacturers pairing parts to the device (looking at you apple) so that the parts refuse to work due to a software-lock. Additional tax or even hard penalization of those practices would make sense. Also it would make sense limiting the reach of DMCA and IP laws to enable users to "break digital locks", modify and distribute modified firmware in order to bypass those arbitrary restrictions imposed by manufacturers.