They're not a useful innovation - they are an abhorrent consumerist "disposalism" decision to pump sales, a safety nightmare (isolate it? nope), purely a cost cutting exercise for the manufacturer and make it even harder to recycle the nasty chemicals.
Don't give me the shit about it allowing smaller devices to be made either. You can make smaller devices with removable batteries fine.
They're not a useful innovation - they are an abhorrent consumerist "disposalism" decision to pump sales, a safety nightmare (isolate it? nope), purely a cost cutting exercise for the manufacturer and make it even harder to recycle the nasty chemicals.
Don't give me the shit about it allowing smaller devices to be made either. You can make smaller devices with removable batteries fine.
I'm a qualified EE for ref.