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
Well I don’t believe the market is good for much, but the smartphone market is saturated enough that we have a pretty good idea of the form most people want in a phone when balancing aesthetics, weight, ease of handling, durability, waterproofing, screen size, etc. The concerns that you have are easily solved with a phone case, even one with a battery. I don’t miss headphone jacks either, as Bluetooth is really convenient and not that expensive anymore.
The focus should not be “the mainstream phone design shouldn’t exist” but rather on the fact that market forces incentivize standardization to cut costs, whereas a hypothetical economy driven by use-value instead of profit would be able to support production of niche/specialized commodities without concern for profit.
no we have a good idea of what apple marketing and apple-chasing companies will push.
bluetooth sounds worse than a wire and nobody wanted to buy new shitty earbuds for no reason or deal with charging issues on another device. Doubly so for anyone who replaced their mp3 player or walkman with a phone at any point and cares literally at all about audio quality. I already had these $80 earbuds that sound pretty dang good why the fuck should i buy a worse product that's easier to lose and needs to be charged?
Bluetooth headphones definitely do have their uses, but I am still firmly pro headphone jack
Having wired earbuds ripped out of my ear is annoying and it is not infrequent. Wireless is way more convenient for a bunch of reasons but especially when moving. Bluetooth also doesn’t inherently sound worse, there are codecs which are very good and will not make a difference unless you’re an audiophile with excellent equipment sitting in a quiet environment in which you could just plug into a computer jack anyway. For most situations with a phone, wireless makes more sense.
Anyway, I didn’t really want to have a battle of preferences as my original point is that there are reasons other than mustache-twirling capitalism that one would design a device with a difficult-to-replace battery. And although this EU decision is for consumers, there are actual downsides which may be outweighed by the benefits, but which exist nonetheless.
My phone with a headphone jack also supports your wireless headphones. Your bluetooth only phone doesn't support mine.
Maybe it's just me but I'd rather not buy earbuds that have a built in expiration date in the form of batteries. I don't think a marginal convenience benefit is worth that.
Markets have many uses and your example is not one of them. People can only buy what is being sold, and advertising spin warps what they would choose from among those options. It is hard to say what "the form most people want in a phone" is given we only have such wildly skewed information on the topic.