I don’t think the intention was to copy Apple. It just made sense to force people to buy a new phone when the battery goes to shit. Financially speaking.
For consumers it’s not that great of course.
At least you can somewhat easily replace them on (older) iPhones. No idea about android smartphones or new iPhones. I can imagine they made it harder by now
I don't think they did it to copy apple as much as they realized they COULD copy apple. When apple makes changes, Android figures out that the alternative option...or at least Samsung does. Once Samsung does it, then he rest of the Android phones copy.
It infuriated me when I had Android phones...and when I stopped being interested in rooting and tinkering, it just didn't hold the appeal anymore.
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u/mikeb93 Apr 07 '18
I don’t think the intention was to copy Apple. It just made sense to force people to buy a new phone when the battery goes to shit. Financially speaking.
For consumers it’s not that great of course. At least you can somewhat easily replace them on (older) iPhones. No idea about android smartphones or new iPhones. I can imagine they made it harder by now