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
The Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro managed to get IP68 with a removable battery back in 2020, but it looks like a fucking brick lol. No one is going to buy one of those. It's like one of those old school waterproof android monstrosities, but new.
Fucking the place where I was working around that time had a bunch of xcover pros and they were truly heinous devices. Imagine a lowend device specswise. but coated in all of the little flaps and useless buttons and aggravating ass little bullshit, wrapped up in a mandatory shitty otterbox style case that alerts corporate wirelessly if it's removed. Then bog it down with a shitload of enterprise software that's phoning home so often that apps crash because they're too busy sending IT a bunch of stats (and screenshots???) we don't want, need, or use in the background. Truly Dankpods tier unusable hardware made to chuck straight in the bin, but then bogged down with the most pointless software, all so that field techs could use an app to report what's going on... As though they couldn't just do that from their own phone or something.
Also no idea how those things were ip68, we got so many trashed ones back that were wet because of people dropping them in something, having to remove the case to dry it, and crack it open to get the water out of the back plate (whether or not that was actually necessary) and then it inevitably came back to us, destroyed.
Screenshots lmao. Poor IT department.
But that phone looks hideous, and now sounds like it too from what you said. Truely a pointless device destined for e-waste. I just don't get why these things exist, same with the CAT smartphones. Slapping a thick case on a normal phone probably provides more protection, if users want that.
To be honest, the reason that individual people buy all of these devices is to signal working class status and/or larp at being more blue collar than they really are. Largely the same thing as buying an OtterBox for your iphone. "I'm a big boy in my truck and I need an otterbox because nothing else protects my phone well enough from the rugged activities I do as an architect or insurance salesman."
The reason corporate buys these devices is because they read the specs and they go "wow it's durable? We won't have to replace so many of them! Military specs?
Bazinga! Get operations to order exactly 1 for every frontline employee!" They're much cheaper than something like a zebra device, which is basically the same thing but done correctly, but you absolutely get what you pay for when it comes to enterprise computers. However, corporate doesn't notice or care if their workers have to scan things 10 times with a camera or deal with constant app crashes, so spending 1/4 as much is fine by them.