[anonymars]

So you're suggesting we all just need to buy exclusively flip phones for a few years to send the market a signal that it wants replaceable batteries. Then the free market will do its thing and keep the engine of innovation running

Speaking of which, does anyone want to do a list of "features added to smartphones over the last 10 years" vs "features removed from smartphones over the last 10 years" so we can see just what innovations are at risk?

[matchbok3]

I'm not suggesting anything, I'm simply offering the reality of the smartphone market. What you are suggesting is a contrived, exaggerated take of how markets function.

People generally like small, thin phones, as evidenced by the billions sold. It really isn't much more complicated than that.

[anonymars]

That's an interesting assertion given that phones have gotten progressively larger and the iPhone Mini was phased out

Maybe it is more complicated than that