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How much battery capacity, physical size, weight, or waterproofing are you willing to sacrifice? Because for me, it’s straight up zero

> How much battery capacity

Batteries used to last a lot longer

> physical size, weight

Phones used to be a lot smaller as well

Phone batteries used to be a lot smaller, phones used to draw a lot less current and have smaller screens and be a lot stupider.

And at the time they were comparable to a flashlight in terms of complexity, not running AAA games with raytracing and a camera pipeline of untold complexity. It’s almost like having anything this complex working requires insane engineering and miniaturization, this is not due to “planned obsolescence”, especially if you take a look at the second hand market. No other brand has even remotely similar resell value.

Gaming laptops have user replaceable batteries.

> User replaceable cell phone batteries used to be the norm, not the exception.

Few enough people want them that no one makes them anymore

(That’s what people mean when they say no one wanted them)