> yet these features disappeared because the iPhone showed that most consumers don't value those features over a sleek integrated lifestyle product. Actually,

> yet these features disappeared because the iPhone showed that most consumers don't value those features over a sleek integrated lifestyle product. Actually, at the time when the shift to non-replaceable battery happened the alternatives had significantly worse software, which easily overtook any benefit from a replaceable battery, but also means that it means little in terms of estimated consumer expectations for a single hardware feature. To get actual information we would need Apple to produce a device that's pretty much identical to the iPhone with the only differences being whatever's necessary to achieve battery replaceability.