obviously, but stuff like this is still neat 
Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer.
Eat shit and drink piss, Apple. I have a desk drawer full of old phones with removable batteries, we had this shit figured out 20 years ago
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I don’t get why everyone here’s shitting on Apple specifically. When’s the last time a major Android phone company made replaceable batteries? A decade?
Great law. The only positive about non removable batteries was cheap and easy waterproofing of phones. But Samsung figured out waterproofing with a removable battery in the Galaxy S5 9 years ago, so I’m sure manufacturers will figure out a way.
Phones aren’t even changing that much year to year anymore. They aren’t getting thinner and battery life is pretty decent no matter what you buy. There’s no reason to not do it. I’m sure the corpos will market it as how it was their idea the entire time because they care about the environment so much lol.
This kicks ass. The current regime of forced obsolescence bullshit must be stopped. If the phone’s design must be 0.5mm thicker to accommodate a removable battery design then so be it. Little loss for massive gain.
I like how these big tech companies pretend they can make any innovation happen with enough ingenuity and r&d, except for user-friendly, human-friendly, climate-friendly ones. Oh no, now we can’t charge people $99 for a battery replacement (which our market research shows that realistically means they just will buy a whole new phone!)
Who even cares about how sleek a phone is when the vast majority of people put it in a protective case anyway?
i just want a little switch on the side that physically disconnects the camera and microphone from the mobo and battery. It would be so easy, please EU, force this upon production. Don’t you want to get back at the US for blowing up that pipe? Why not fuck with their surveillance state, as treat, as a little joke?
Why would the EU nations give up their favorite monitoring tools?
mfw waterproof phones become a gasket nightmare with flaps over ports and shit again. Love to unplug my phone and have it go “uhm. Excuse me, you uhhh… Didn’t close the charging port flap all the way. Gonna need you to do that before you can call 911 because you’re bleeding out. Oh, lemme hit you with a quick speaker-clearing buzz to get that water out.”
wrist watches have had the technology to be waterproof with moving components and reusable gaskets for decades.
Just use screws instead of glue on the back panel and you’re golden.
Oh shit, maybe next we’ll get the headphone jacks back.
I don’t really miss them that much tbh. Even cheapo bluetooth airbuds are pretty good nowadays and there are probably some good wired USB-C options if you’re really hell bent on having wires everywhere.
You don’t miss the jack until you’re suddenly faced with a need for it, away from all your adapters. Nothing beats just a single common plug that can interface with every bit of audio electronics ever.
I love my bt ear buds but 98% of bluetooth audio gear is ewaste from the factory.
USB C options suck because it means you can’t charge the phone at the same time
Sure you can…a splitter is like $5.
Yay extra things to carry around
