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This is what happens when the market for phone batteries only exists for OEMs who buy millions at a time, custom.

It will stop only when there is a reason for consumer-detectable battery quality indicators — ie non-tech people have a reason to buy them. Which will now be the case with this law.

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> This is what happens when the market for phone batteries only exists for OEMs who buy millions at a time, custom.

Even a few years ago when phones with replaceable batteries weren't that rare and I was in possession of one – by the time I started thinking about a battery replacement, offers of original OEM batteries usually seemed to have vanished into thin air and it was having to find out which aftermarket battery seemed reputable enough…