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Well that's going to depend on whether you use the phone as a tool to maximize productivity or as an entertainment device / time sink / mental masturbation. If your not gaming and watching videos, shouldn't matter.
Using your argument, you can just as well say WiFi is a waste ... "Is it really so hard to jack an ethernet cable into a device ?" For me, I miss the day when I charged my smartphone once a week. and If I needed to, I really didn't cause would just swap batteries. But here's some of the obvious.
1. Do you care how long your data backup takes ? Mine takes about 3 minutes daily, 3 hours wouldn't change anything as I'm sleeping. If only using phone for productivity, you'll never need more than once charge a day ... Since most peeps sleep 7 - 8 hours, so on an overnight charge, why care if it's 2 or 8 ?
2. If you have ever served as an emergency responder, you are answering your phone 24/7 ... and when reaching over to the night stand, to grab the phone at 3:20 am, the cord is a real PITA. During Snowstorms, Hurricanes, etc .... after 3-4 days on site, I'd get as many as a dozen calls a night to approve various activities. I've knocked off medication bottles, glasses of water, etc where the cord pulled something off the nightstand.
3. When driving, if you have the phone on GPS, battery charge sinks fast. The cord thing is a PITA as at each job site or stop have to deal with plugging / unplugging the cord
4. When sitting on the desk, sitting in the stand, it leaves phone in an always accessible / viewable position. In addition, when laying on desk, ya find yaself unplugging / plugging so ya can sit back and relax in ya chair on every call.
5. If you are the type that uses their laptop to charge the phone, that's also a multi-hour event
5. I'm on my 4th cord for this phone .... 2 of them just disintergrated (as did every one I have ever owned ... (I tend to keep a phone 5-7 years). Replacement cords cords are $15 (I have had too much bad luck with "Walmart" type brands so only buy Samsing or Apple) , so are the wireless chargers (RavPower desktop stand, 10 watt is $12 on Amazon) tho many outlets provide one for free with purchase.
6. I just looked ... When the new iPhones came out, RavPower, Amazon, etc were all well stocked.... looked at 5 sites.... now all out of stock... so peeps are buying them.
7. Frankly, I was uninterested when my son said he was getting one ... but after talking with folks who use them, now I'm thinking more ... why not ? It's hard to justify buying that spare cord, when the WC is he same price.
