I have seen countless videos on tiktok of people being against this move, and my question is why? why wouldn’t anyone want to be able to extend the life of their expensive devices, why wouldn’t people want easily repairable batteries that take less than 5 minutes to swap out?

the only argument ive seen against this is “OOH BUT BUT BUT THE AESTHETICS OF THE PHONE” who cares? form should always be over function. and if anything it will end the trend of phones being glassy slabs and bring some innovation and new designs to the table. which im very excited to see.

What about aesthetics? They used to have removable back covers before and there wasn’t any seam visible. This is not even a valid argument imho.

Battery pull was always a great way to unfuck a frozen phone

They removed physical buttons and access to batteries and now I can’t do shit when an app freezes (other than attempting to turn it off, but even then the “turn off?” Can’t pop up)

Why do we love do design things like shit so much? It seems that every fist world struggle I ever had was due to bad design

Never get this point, if your phone froze and the screen is not responding, how another physical button would have solved the thing ?

And let’s be honest, there is still a combination of key to hard restart any phone.

Because back in the olden days you could just hold down the physical power button to force a phone to shut down, same as you can do on computers still. This bypasses the frozen software and forces the phone to shut down so you can reboot it.

You still can ? All phones have a power button.

If my phone is frozen it doesn’t respond to the power button because it’s software shutdown