obviously, but stuff like this is still neat 
Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer.
Eat shit and drink piss, Apple. I have a desk drawer full of old phones with removable batteries, we had this shit figured out 20 years ago
Great law. The only positive about non removable batteries was cheap and easy waterproofing of phones. But Samsung figured out waterproofing with a removable battery in the Galaxy S5 9 years ago, so I'm sure manufacturers will figure out a way.
Phones aren't even changing that much year to year anymore. They aren't getting thinner and battery life is pretty decent no matter what you buy. There's no reason to not do it. I'm sure the corpos will market it as how it was their idea the entire time because they care about the environment so much lol.
Might need the user to occasionally check and replace a rubber gasket on the battery compartment or something, but having a replaceable battery outweighs that by so much. If the battery on my old phone wasn't dying I'd still be using it, all I do is watch youtube and doomscroll anyways.