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It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
(www.androidauthority.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's only the EU bit these kind of law tend to impact products all around the world.
Maintaining different products for different markets is difficult and expensive. Making the battery replaceable is not very hard to do so it's easier to produce one kind of product with replaceable battery for the whole world rather than maintaining two different production lines.
Boy you are underestimating apples pettyness