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by Zigurd 4668 days ago
This is a pretty naive idea. There are a lot of reasons to go in the opposite direction

For example, water-resistant phones are going to be hard to take apart, and that's a feature that will result in many fewer dead phones.

Packaging for mobile handsets is continuing to evolve. Any modular system would be obsolete long before it breaks even on repairability, upgradeability, etc.