[bakugo]

> Why would a consumer like my mum care about opening the phone up?

Because in a few years the phone will be unusable because of the battery. Your mum probably doesn't care about how new and fast it is, it will likely still work fine for her, but she'll likely have to replace the whole phone because of the battery.

[adesanmi]

She does replace it every couple of years (well, I do anyway) and she loves that fact.

What confuses me about all this is the fact that anyone who wants an easily repairable phone has access to them on the market, as I’ve been saying, I support companies who make this stuff because I like tinkering with hardware.

I think Apple should continue to be a company that biases towards design - trading off repairability if it comes to that. That’s ok because if I don’t like it I can buy a different phone.

My mum just wants a phone with the feature she cares about, and when it gets slow or bad, she rings me up to upgrade.