Comment by dmalvarado

You can't eat your cake and have it too. Sleeker, smaller, thinner, cheaper, MOAR BATTERY.

That's what the market wants. If the market wanted ClunkBox perpetual computer that was infinitely upgradeable, there would be an option out there.

(I'll admit though, the glue is kind of weird. But I guess a natural progression when "no one opens these things anyway")