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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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Batteries are the least of your worries with phones.

These days software is almost always mpre problematic than hardware. The phone's OS releases are coded to slowly cripple older phone models by introducing performance degradation to impact earlier models.

If you plan to keep your old OS bd annually doable updates, good luck having any working Apps after a year or two, as updates to firmware will start to lock your device utilities (camera, GPS, etc,) from interacting with the latest App versions properly.

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Another witchcraft idea invented by Apple.

And Google enriches us with witch craft like forced scoped storage, breaking compatibility with existing and established software.

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The phone's OS releases are coded to slowly cripple older phone models by introducing performance degradation to impact earlier models.

Just good old software that takes advantage of the greater memory of newer phones, causing lots of swapping on older ones. I had an Android phone where every fucking switch between apps took several seconds because it had to re-open the app. Painful as hell to use. Don't ever buy a phone with less than 3 or 4 GB of RAM.