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On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:43:47 +0000, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 10/03/2021 08:49, Jeff Layman wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077

Will this make any practical difference?

Hopefully.

Apple needs to change its ways.

Making their batteries user replaceable would be a start.

That's not going to happen, hardly any of the top end
smartphones are done like that anymore, for a reason.

and that reason is:

so that you are forced to throw it away and buy a new phone when the
battery dies

Nope, and there are plenty of places that will replace the battery for you.

Even apple does that, for a fee.

The real reason is because it makes very thin phones much
easier and that's the current fashion and it makes waterproofing
very easy. Its not practical with a user replaceable battery. And
it allows a bigger battery in the same sized phone.