This is an old video, but one that it worth watching again and again.
It makes you realize how much thought goes into designing every manufactured product around us.
Then it enrages you.
It makes you realize products are no longer designed to be useful.
They are designed to be profitable.
Why the fuck I ain't got a replaceable battery on my phone?
Because then you could take the battery out and the geolocation and microphone would stop working.
Because then you wouldn't buy a new phone every two years
- Because he bought a phone without the abilty to change it.
My phone battery can be changed because I'm not a spaz.
I think it was a rhetorical question.
Preach, plenty of five year old models with those featires are going on strong.
So the NSA can track you and you're too lazy to power down the phone.
I dont think simply turning your phone off is good enough.
Just snap it in half after every use.
I don't trust anything or anyone from Moronmon Romneytah.
Look up the Utah Data Center. NSA data collection facility that's so large it needs several cooling towers for the equipment and has it's own power substation. Estimated to process and collect exabytes of data https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Telecommunications companies gladly work with them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
And you wonder why they collect all that data.
The last 2 years was an experiment in the collection of that data used against the populous in a world wide psyop.
Prove me wrong.
The biggest reason you don't have a replaceable battery is cost. All those connectors and snap designs cost several pennies per device. Add to that, manufacturers can sell more devices after the battery dies.
Every connector adds additional engineering and cost. People want cheap shit, they don't want to replace parts. The entire phone can go through a single manufacturing line and the end consumer doesn't need to install anything. Notice that many devices now have induction charging systems so there isn't even a requirement for a charging connection. It won't be too long before data cables are omitted too. Apple already removed the analog headphone jack.
I think it's more fundamental: a sealed-in battery uses less space. A removable battery needs protection on both sides of it, not bare electronics, so a battery cover, or an end-plug-in design . The battery itself needs some protection on the sides as well, not just the bare tick sack as internal ones are. The connector for it is also going to be more bulky than a minimal plug-in-once type on an internal battery.
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