Re: Brave New World
I would take it with a grain of salt when some writer for Mashable declares removable batteries dead. Writers are Apple users as a general rule; this one seems to be no exception; and they would see inevitability in this trend because Apple started it. Most consumers, on the other hand, would gladly accept a rugged plastic phone that's 1mm thicker if it has a removable battery, headphone jack, and one-fifth the pricetag. That's the future of smartphones after the novelty wears off.
Sealed batteries are fine if you've disabled all the battery-draining location-tracking spyware and get 4 days on a charge. But I think they're largely a concession to metal & glass phones, because you can't simply pop the cover off. In other words, this is just foolishness.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
