Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Reading my YT comments is depressing" video.

  1. The worst part of following trends like that just for the sake of following is that past a certain threshold, it forces everyone else to also do it because it breaks mass production. It's probably what ended up happening with removable batteries both for laptops and smartphones. When they started becoming non-removable, both R&D and mass production of removable batteries slowed or stopped altogether for those categories of batteries, to the point that even if a current laptop or smartphone manufacturer wanted to launch a model with modern removable batteries in mind, they'd probably have to either assume by themselves R&D and costly manufacturing for that model alone, or use batteries that could be fairly outdated and stuck in time. Weirdly enough, I'm seeing this in other types of electronics, like a cheap-o portable keyboard I got sometime ago. It has a rechargeable and removable battery inside. You know what type? One of those that came in Nokia dumbphones bricks from 20 years ago. For some reason, mass production of that type of battery endured somehow. It's an unofficial standard for all sorts of cheap-o electronics. I've also seen them in portable LED lights for photos and videos. You can look it up, it's Nokia BL-5C. I think even Amazon still sells it. It works for this one not because it's the latest battery tech, but because it's probably super cheap to mass produce despite being extremely outdated. It's meh, good enough for some stuff. Which is something that doesn't work for flagship lines or products that have to be constantly evolving and a step above the rest. Probably not Thinkpad's case since laptops haven't been changing a whole lot in terms of chassis and form factor recently, plus like Louis already put it, the battery specs itself didn't change. But yeah.. it becomes that much harder to be the only company keeping one particular spec alive. Perhaps they made the change because moving forward, if they plan on putting a more modern battery inside, it'll have to be non removable one way or another? Or it was really just a cost cutting measure. It was cheaper to use some standard 90whr internal battery instead of their removable model. Which is of course still bad for costumers, but perhaps that was the logic behind it.
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