&gt; The worst part of this is that Apple&#x27;s success has dragged the rest of the market toward things like non-replaceable batteries<p>I think that statement is only half right. Apple may have pioneered the move towards non-replaceable batteries, but I think it&#x27;s only a symptom of increasingly integrated and small devices. If an inch thick device is thicker by 1mm because the battery is easily detachable, that&#x27;s much less of an issue than on a 10mm laptop.<p>They may have done it in an egregious way first (gluing&#x2F;soldering in components), but we probably would have gotten there before long anyway.