[Chode]

and non-removable batteries...

[Be Free]

Obviously I’m in the minority here, but I don’t see this as a big deal. We know that electricity sourced from “renewable” sources doesn’t work too well either at night (solar) or in calm winds (wind-turbine). So having smart-phones grab their juice at a time when there’s an abundance of these sources on the grid doesn’t bother me.

I’d rather that than millions of phones charging when the grid IS under stress, and the all-powerful electric utilities decide we need a rolling blackout, and where I then don’t have heat or A/C.

That said, when my phone is dead because it wouldn’t let me charge when I needed to would piss me off.

[zeugma]

Thanks for this. I just turned mine off

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks. Just turned mine off.