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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
The question is, why can one phone have a user replacable battery and not the other. My Lumia 950XL for instance has a battery I can replace. It's not more expensive than the Iphone. My husband's Lumia has a battery he can replace. Apple won't even consider pricing something for that amount...
The only reason I can think of is your last remark: if the battery runs out, people will have to buy a new (expensive) device, instead of a cheap battery. So, instead of having to buy a new phone every year because the battery life has degraded so much, people will do several years with one phone.
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A related issue involves my portable CD players. They use replaceable AA batteries and despite being years old, they are still usable (and play more than 30 hours on one set of batteries). All it takes is putting in a new set of batteries, and that is something that I can easily do myself without the need for a technician. If they used non-replaceable rechargeable I would have had to replace them years ago, like I've had to with at least one of my DAPs.