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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.
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But the company is probably earning less on it.
Why do some cell phones have SD card slots and others don't?
I'd say user expectation and target group is a big factor. The customers apple targets apparently as a whole don't relly need or want all that - or at least don't complain loud enough. (Probably because they don't have much choice - like the OS but not the hardware? Tough luck.)
I'm not saying they (apple, in this case) are unhappy at the thought of customers re-buying their devices.
It's just that I think the idea of a company actively devising ways to force re-buy is too simple.
(And, in some cases, way too complex - devising methods to ensure a device fails *just* when the warranty is off...)