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kleinbl00 · 2224 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture
I want to agree but I've let the smoke out of a couple cheap eBay iPods doing the battery change. There's a difference between a non-serviceable component connected directly to the board and a user-swappable accessory. Making the battery swappable makes it marginally more expensive but it also complicates the design and "complication" = "bulk." I will bet you there's a surface-mount connector on the board that is proprietary and not available to strip-mall fixit shops.