[–] lanre 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Look, I know. The lack of replaceable batteries is for two main reasons:

1.) Your phone now has a shelf life and must be replaced eventually, leading to higher overall sales

2.) The NSA, CIA, and the rest of the Alphabet (Google etc.) don't like when users can turn off spying devices.

In a free market without collusion, you'd still expect to have at least some niche vendors sell phones with removable batteries, but the almost complete lack of that speaks to, IMO, our government approving the collusion in order to support their requirements for spy devices.

[–] Handroid7 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

The EU nearly passed an anti-non-replaceable battery law in early 2020.

Your phone now has a shelf life

In other words: Planned obsolescence.

And I was even happy when both options existed. But as described in that article, the worse successfully usurped the better, sadly.

Also, sadly, the world is infested with degenerates who favour premium design over functionality, also known as form-over-function advocates.

And Google is imposing iOS-tier cancer (enforced scoped storage) upon users, without official option to grant selected applications normal access, non-verbally begging users to root their devices.