> ... if [removable batteries] were that great for customers there would have been [more mass market smartphones]... Removable battery phones are more difficul

> ... if [removable batteries] were that great for customers there would have been [more mass market smartphones]... Removable battery phones are more difficult to design. Why would a company do something that's more difficult, absent a mandate to do so? Modern smartphones are not the pinnacle of technical possibility -- they're an optimization between feature and price. A feature could be beloved by customers but add another $1 to smartphone build costs, and still be cut by every remaining manufacturer in the market.