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Having worked in the industry at that time, there were 2 main reasons they did it like that

• batteries were quite unreliable and failed often
• mfgrs couldn't afford to have one year warranties and send out field replacement units for a battery

And the reasons they stopped doing it..

• batteries got better
• battery contact failure was higher than battery failure.
• replaceable batteries compromise waterproofing

I think they should still be replacible, but they should have better connectors that are sealed off from the rest of the device. It costs a tiny bit more to do that engineering though.

With early smart phones generation there was basically a race to thinner smartphones. Replaceable batteries need a protective shell so it wouldn’t get damaged easily when idiots fumble with it when they replace the battery. But the protective shell takes up space. So the first thing they did to make phones thinner was to remove the replaceable battery and just use a battery without a protective shell. Also Apple proofed that most people don’t care so all the Android phone makers followed suit.

AlL tHe bEtTeR tO wAtErPrOoF yOu WiTh, My DeAr

More and more they are trying to turn everything into a black box. I am assuming it is more convenient and profitable for them.

EU to the rescue

Grandma is right on this one!

Water resistance.

It was stopped because Apple wanted you to deal with their service technicians in their stores using their parts directly. They make zero dollars if you replace your spicy pillow with a 3rd party amazon battery.