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It appears as if Apple shill users in online forums have massively helped popularizing unibody “premium” phone designs with non-replaceable batteries. Apple has resources in abundance to manipulate Internet forums. “The Great Replacement of Mobile Phones” | xpost /s/ShowerThoughts (poal.co)

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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I suspect that there is far more astroturfing happening than we know.

Edit: Triple posting on Poal, even in different subs, is unnecessary.

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astroturfing

Damn.... this word was on the tip of my tongue! Thank you!

I just crossposted this because I thought it would be relevant enough. Maybe the post in was not necessary.

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