zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 14, 6:25 pm, "Carl" <croth...@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote:
>
>> No matter how you slice it, Apple's failure to make the battery
>> user-replaceable is a huge error imho. I suspect that, should decide
>> to ge
>
> Crazy talk. I, like most, have not owned a spare battery for any phone
> I've had in the past several years (since I switched from dual-mode D-
> AMPS to GSM, in fact).
>
It would be crazy talk if we were comparing appes to apples (pun intended).
But we're not. And, yes, with all my past PHONES I found a spare battery a
waste of time and money too. But the iPhone is not inherently just a phone.

Now we have a device that is actually four devices in one: a phone, an
internet browser, a music player, and a video player (did I miss anything).
Oh yeah, a PDA of sorts too. Five-in-one. And we're expecting it to last all
day on one battery. It will. If you don't use it.

Please see my post, somewhere above, on a typical plane trip I might take,
and consider whether you would count on that battery lasting for you through
that day. And I mean DEPEND on it, as if the phone part might be imminently
important to you at the end of that day.