With easier to replace batteries and 3.5mm headphone jacks, I'd wager the secondary market service life would be 2-3 times longer.

Not to mention the e-waste from non-repairable battery-based devices like air-pods.

Corporation make planned obsolescence decisions that happen to benefit themselves, then can dress it up as "water resistance".

Wouldn't be so bad but Apple's anti-consumer decisions are unfortunately imitated.

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pbh101 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What you describe as pro-consumer is only pro to some consumers, because they come with extra weight, size, and case compromises that every consumer would non-optionally be stuck with. I’d agree with you if we were in some no-compromise world or if there there was significant evidence that Apple wasn’t designing these phones within an inch of their pan-dimensional budget (size, weight, durability, hardware, battery life, etc) and leaving a bunch of room on the table, but that’s an unfounded and easily disproven theory.

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spaqin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I would be okay with being "stuck" with a replacement battery and a 3.5mm jack. That's a compromise I'd be wiling to take; but at the end of the day it's all about profit.

	▲	pbh101 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You might be willing to, but the product might be more attractive to millions out there if they didn’t have these items. You can say that is about profit but it is also about making a better product, weighed by what customers want in aggregate.
	▲	musicale 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As PP noted, the tradeoff is vs. making things thinner and more waterproof. I'm OK with wireless charging and using the USB port for audio or other purposes, though occasionally I want to use wired Ethernet or Thunderbolt displays at the same time as wired audio, and I also use a wired charge/audio dongle as a car adapter (though there are wireless chargers available.)