Anyone who wouldn&#x27;t care about having the battery <i>glued to the chassis</i> also would not care about the 1mm difference between making it removable or not.<p>I also think on at least the Android front Samsung has consistently demonstrated the ability to make phones with both SD cards and removable batteries for years without compromising form factor. The S3 &#x2F; S$ &#x2F; S5 and Notes 2 - 4 were all extremely thin profile despite supporting removable batteries.<p>This is just misdirection to try to persuade people its a good thing to remove choice. It is not, it costs basically nothing in manufacturing or size to make the battery &#x2F; ram &#x2F; hard drive removable, and the only reason Apple &#x2F; Dell &#x2F; Samsung (now) &#x2F; every other Android phone manufacturer does it is either to rip you off on overpriced battery replacement or drive planned obsolescence to make you buy more shit you really wouldn&#x27;t need if you could just replace your damn battery two years later.