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For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article **.

When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named Logo! reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages.

This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain.

If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it.

In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries.

From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy.

And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped.

The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

For those unaware yet, I am the author of the over-5000-word article *[Benefits of user-replaceable batteries](https://en.EverybodyWiki.com/Benefits_of_user-replaceable_batteries)*. When I was around 8 years old, a children's news channel named *Logo!* reported printers being deliberately designed to quit functioning properly after a predetermined number of pages. This idea already sounded repugnant to my 8-year-young brain. If a device is designed to fail and difficult to repair, it feels like not actually owning it. In 2010, the iPhone 4 was released. I already heard of iPhones before then, but that was the first time I realized they have non-user-replaceable batteries. From a Nintendo DS Lite user manual, I already knew batteries only last for a limited number of recharging cycles until they lose their ability to output power and store energy. And what has it come to a decade later? Mobile phones with user-replaceable batteries have been fully usurped. The few remaining ones with replaceable batteries such as the Galaxy Xcover Pro have low-tier technical specifications such as the same resolution and frame rate for video recording as the 2011 Galaxy S2: 1080p@30fps.

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Thats a shame. They have been using the internet to force obsolescence too.

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Yes, that is kind of the case - as sites get heavier and heavier, it's harder for older devices to keep up. An old laptop that I keep around for travel (no camera, GNU/Linux) has a very hard time with modern websites. The Core2Duo fans just scream when you load something these days.

That's not too much of an issue, I rarely browse the internet on my phone, it's just not an enjoyable experience on a small screen. The changing protocol (GSM -> VoLTE) isn't something I can get around, however. Protocols change, oh well.

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It is getting very hard to find used phones too, especially forward thinking and without updates. All these recycling programs take them out of circulation. And those that survive are susceptible to engineered killer software that is designed to work properly the allowed phone but will kill the old forward thoughtful phones. I used to have one such phone and it was killed by an app. Once the app killed it there was no fixing it. I tried everything short of sending back for repair. It needed a new charger chip or reprogramming the charging chip.

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That's weird, it must have done a microcode update. The charger device is typically it's own little circuit.

What application did you install? I'd be interested in looking at that to see if I can figure out why.

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To break compatibility, Twitter has and Google brought us enforced (non-optional) scoped storage cancer.

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Twitter's API still allows you to return stuff without issues if you're so inclined. I use that to scrap the weather service feeds.

You could have said "Google is Cancer" and stopped.