Outside the EU, in many cases, device batteries will also be user-swappable. Companies like Apple greatly prefer (well, when they're not petulantly trying to s

Outside the EU, in many cases, device batteries will also be user-swappable. Companies like Apple greatly prefer (well, when they're not petulantly trying to show the EU who's boss) to ship one design to the whole world. It's a nuisance to have separate design processes, manufacturing processes, marketing materials, etc. This is why, once it became affordable, the entire industry started making auto-switching power supplies. Unless hardware manufacturers finagle a way to continue selling soldered batteries in the EU, user-swappable batteries will become the norm again.