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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Cell phones before the iPhone had an easily replaceable battery. Cell phones after the iPhone eventually stopped having an easily replaceable battery. SO you'd buy a cell phone and it would last for a long time because you could replace the battery. Apple decided that once the battery got bad enough the phone would have to be replaced. This meant forced obsolescence. And we've been living with battery powered devices that cannot easily have the battery replaced even though there is nothing wrong other then it needs a new battery.
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And yet we have evidence here, at least for ereaders, that people are using devices that are fairly old and have measurable upgrades available from a variety of vendors in a variety of options. Smart phones are similar though you will probably go through more charges in the same period of time, there are folks happily using the iPhone 4 today. So maybe the replaceable battery hysteria is just that hysteria.