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A removable battery means: * Worse water proof - leading to a higher chance that water breaks your phone entirely * Thicker phone due to space constraints *

A removable battery means: * Worse water proof - leading to a higher chance that water breaks your phone entirely * Thicker phone due to space constraints * Worse battery life, because built in batteries can take on weird shapes to maximize space We don't have the same problem 10-15 years ago with batteries. Today, phones have drastically better battery life than 10 years ago. An iPhone 13 Pro Max can easily last 2 days on one charge. Portable battery chargers are ubiquitous. USB ports are everywhere you go. Apple still provides professional battery replacements for phones as old as the iPhone 5 for a reasonable price of $49. [0] Non-removable battery phones have won out. It's what consumers decided with their pockets. EU government should not think that they know how to design a better phone for users. There is nothing preventing a phone maker from making a phone with removable batteries today. Nothing. Xiaomi can do it. Oppo can do it. Apple can do it. Samsung can do it. Asus can do it. People just aren't buying them in high enough numbers. Customers are choosing non-removable battery phones. Forcing everyone to make phones with removable batteries is insane. [0]https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement

Iulioh 3y ago
>Non-removable battery phones have won out. It's what consumers decided with their pockets. Consumers would buy toxic and deadly stuff if that's all the market will offer as the best value . Governments are needed to keep companies in check and that's another example. Honestly, just think about usb and the era before that. Every consumer could chose what charger to have and every phone had his own, would you say that forcing usb on all phones was insane?
- senttoschool 3y ago
  Phone numbers quickly adopted USB-C. In fact, phone makers themselves formed a group together with other tech companies and created USB-C. It had nothing to do with the government. Heck, even Apple was slowly transitioning to USB-C and they would have eventually used USB-C for the iPhone regardless of EU laws. >Consumers would buy toxic and deadly stuff if that's all the market will offer as the best value. I disagree with this. Arguably, removable batteries are more dangerous.
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    - senttoschool 3y ago
      You're getting way ahead of yourself. Bottom line is, if customers valued removable batteries enough, it would still be a feature for phone makers today.
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Iulioh 3y ago

>Non-removable battery phones have won out. It's what consumers decided with their pockets. Consumers would buy toxic and deadly stuff if that's all the market will offer as the best value . Governments are needed to keep companies in check and that's another example. Honestly, just think about usb and the era before that. Every consumer could chose what charger to have and every phone had his own, would you say that forcing usb on all phones was insane?

senttoschool 3y ago
Phone numbers quickly adopted USB-C. In fact, phone makers themselves formed a group together with other tech companies and created USB-C. It had nothing to do with the government. Heck, even Apple was slowly transitioning to USB-C and they would have eventually used USB-C for the iPhone regardless of EU laws. >Consumers would buy toxic and deadly stuff if that's all the market will offer as the best value. I disagree with this. Arguably, removable batteries are more dangerous.
- Iulioh 3y ago
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  - senttoschool 3y ago
    You're getting way ahead of yourself. Bottom line is, if customers valued removable batteries enough, it would still be a feature for phone makers today.
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