Every battery is changeable.
The fact that you can't replace them without a screwdriver and a heat gun doesn't make them irreplaceable.
You're also unlikely to fix the TV, but you have no questions about it.
This is stating the obvious without addressing the point. It is implicit that we are discussing user replaceable batteries. Your average user does not own a heat gun or the knowledge of how to use it to replace their own battery. Removing the requirement for the majority of users to have to take their phone to a technician to do the replacement will undoubtedly result in less eWaste. To the best of my knowledge, my TV does not contain a consumable battery which is core to its primary function. Sure the display panel and other components may have a finite lifetime but these are long enough to not be considered consumables by either consumers or manufacturers like batteries are.
I have replaced more screens on my phone than batteries.
I don’t feel like focusing on fixing things at home is the best way to ensure device longevity.
Creating a demand for technicians that can replace all kinds of things on our phones makes it so there’s always some phone repair shop nearby. Every mall I frequent has one. This creates a lower threshold for keeping the phone alive no matter what goes wrong with it.
The battery on my last phone outlasted the phones useful lifespan, so it’s not like batteries on modern phones is a part that’s particularly likely to need replacement. Every user is different of course, some go through a lot more charge cycles. But then there’s others that often break their screens. Or their charge port. If all these things should be easily user replaceable without tools, the phone would become very bulky.
I feel like we’re pretty close to a good compromise, now that Apple has a program to do these kind of replacement at home if you want. It’s really not that difficult.
User-replaceable batteries will require additional space on your phone's body.
I'm not willing to trade convenience for a rare battery replacement case.
If you want - you can buy modular phones, pay for that, don't force other people
And I'll go and pay a couple dozen bucks for this work, like all normal people. But eco-activists are starting to say that eWaste is caused by non-replaceable batteries, not by the obsolescence of devices. No one will change the battery in an outdated device, even if it is replaceable.
A battery is a 'consumable component'. The closest thing to a consumable component in a TV is capacitors, which can live as long as two or three decades.
ravendug|1 year ago
audunw|1 year ago
I don’t feel like focusing on fixing things at home is the best way to ensure device longevity.
Creating a demand for technicians that can replace all kinds of things on our phones makes it so there’s always some phone repair shop nearby. Every mall I frequent has one. This creates a lower threshold for keeping the phone alive no matter what goes wrong with it.
The battery on my last phone outlasted the phones useful lifespan, so it’s not like batteries on modern phones is a part that’s particularly likely to need replacement. Every user is different of course, some go through a lot more charge cycles. But then there’s others that often break their screens. Or their charge port. If all these things should be easily user replaceable without tools, the phone would become very bulky.
I feel like we’re pretty close to a good compromise, now that Apple has a program to do these kind of replacement at home if you want. It’s really not that difficult.
oloila|1 year ago
If you want - you can buy modular phones, pay for that, don't force other people
And I'll go and pay a couple dozen bucks for this work, like all normal people. But eco-activists are starting to say that eWaste is caused by non-replaceable batteries, not by the obsolescence of devices. No one will change the battery in an outdated device, even if it is replaceable.
burnerthrow008|1 year ago
thomassmith65|1 year ago
eternityforest|1 year ago
Unless they happen to be LTO but that would make a phone like three times bulkier.
If a TV has something like flash memory wear issues, it absolutely should make the part that wears into a microSD or m.2 card.