[KarlInOhio]

Because their screws are proprietary, you need special equipment to open up a device.

Which you can get from a Chinese shop on Amazon about three months after the phone hits the market.

The one thing that bothers me is built in batteries. Even the best lithium-ion batteries have a shorter useful life that the device they power. On older phones you could just pop off the back and drop in a relatively standard sized battery. Now you either have to do major surgery or toss the phone and get a new one when it can only hold a few hours of charge.

As they hypno-trained the kids in Brave New World "Ending is better than mending,"

[KarlInOhio]

Also, I bought an Acer laptop when I was comparing it to an HP with similar specs and price. The Micro Center salesman asked if I ever wanted to do repairs and when I said yes, he said the Acer was much easer to open and swap parts and the battery was pretty easy to change even though it was built in.

[alexander_busek]

As they hypno-trained the kids in Brave New World "Ending is better than mending,"

Never understood many of those hypno-training aphorisms!

"The less the stitches, the more the riches!"

Where could one even procure a needle and thread in the "Brave New World?" Or the skills necessary to use them?

We "Alphas" have always had issues with these logical gaps in the storyline. (Not like those "Betas" - they'll believe anything. And those "Gammas" and "Deltas" are simply beneath noticing!)

Regards,

[hecticskeptic]

The one thing that bothers me is built in batteries.
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Totally agree... and my hot button with that topic is smoke alarms. The ones with built in batteries are supposed to last for 10 years but none seem to make it past 2. As for the ones with replaceable batteries, for a time they weren’t even on the shelf although it seems that there were at least some the last time I was in a hardware store.