Electronic devices are short lived

It’s hard to start this article as there is so much wrong about our electronic world. I am so invested in it, and I generally LOVE electronics. It’s also a bit of a scam.
My first smartphones were HTC. I had no love of Apple, nor of Android. My HTC phone was simply an excellent smartphone on the Android platform, and it served me well. When the battery started underperforming, I bought a new, bigger battery with a special back cover to fit the HTC. The back cover snapped off, out popped the battery, and bing bang boom, in went a thicker, longer life battery, with a new back cover to accommodate it.

Samsung phones often (always? I dunno) have easily replaceable batteries. I don’t know about other brands, but Apple has never done that. As Apple hires what are arguably the best designers on the planet, then it seems like it’s something they could do with their product line if they wanted to.

I like Apple products in general, so I’m not bashing them. Apple isn’t the only corporation in the world making products that can’t have a battery easily replaced, and therein lies a problem. As consumers, we ‘encourage’ the bad behavior of manufacturers by buying their ‘poorly’ designed products that force us to toss the older ones and get a newer one, just because it’s not worth paying to replace the dead battery.
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They aren’t really ‘poorly’ designed because they are designed exactly as they are meant to be, which supports the business, and not the consumer. To read an interesting article on that, look HERE.