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Originally Posted by koboy
it's neither a negative or a complaint it's a statement of (fact) current major manufacturers of ereaders (choose purposely) to glue in a non-replaceable battery, when in fact if they wanted to they could easily make them replaceable.
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Except that wasn't what was being disputed, obviously they use non-replacable batteries that are glued in.
Here let me remind you of your own words, since you appear to have forgotten them already:
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a cynic would say it's in the manufacture's interest to use a non-replaceable battery, and glue it in just to make it even harder for the owner/user to be able to change it for a new one when the need arises.
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Bolding mine.
As we've seen the typical battery life for these devices is measured in years, with the average being over half a decade, longer if wifi is off and so on. Further, because of these changes we've also seen water resistance being added, and while
you may not care about that feature, there's evidence enough that people do care.
If the manufactures were truly conspiring to make you replace your ereader along the lines of the battery, they'd not release new generations of devices so frequently. That's R&D money, it's marketing, it's getting through all the regulations, etc. that would be (for a nefarious manufacture) better spent lining their coffers. Then they put out a marginally improved device every 6-7 years or so when the majority of batteries are starting to show their age.
Instead we're getting device refreshes every 2 years or so, a rather drastic difference from when consumers would be looking to replace their ereader when the battery died.