cyrnel

Batteries are one of those Apple things. Things that seem inconsistent with their extraordinary efforts toward making attractive, elegant, and simple-to-use products.

I'm sure we could guess most of the reasons for making iStuff batteries difficult to replace - longer design time, it'd be thicker, it'd be heavier, it'd be weaker, it'd cost more, they'd make less on service, etc. - but knowing their formula wouldn't change that they've been pretty consistent in this area.

I put the battery thing in the annoying-but-not-a-deal-breaker category. My breakers are: 1) no phone-as-modem; 2) AT&T data service sucks. I'd have to buy data service from another carrier. Right. SOL for now.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195