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by photojosh 4465 days ago
Because they valued more the engineering advantage of a built-in battery: thinness, weight, individually connected cells for power management.

Those attributes of design are more appealing to the majority than are interchangeable batteries.

My MBP and MBAir, even with the single built-in battery, gets more runtime than a 1996 laptop with two battery packs.