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by jtode 994 days ago
There have been no options besides that paradigm.

Laptops in the 90s had swappable batteries, as did phones. It's perfectly doable.

You have the scent of someone with Apple stock.

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>There have been no options besides that paradigm.

Fairphone has been around for 8 years. There was the Shift 6m. The Galaxy line was highly repairable up until S5. We are past the point of speculating if its "perfectly doable". People don't want them. To say there were "no options" is ludicrous.

>You have the scent of someone with Apple stock.

I guess it's easier to call me a shill than to accept the almost 20 years of failure for smartphones in this aspect. It's easier to pretend that there were no options than people not actually buying them.

I love this place, it's a magical land where Planned Obsolescence never happened.