Built in camera and video capture has improved an incredible amount. I think the value this provides to people with modern "phones" is pretty significant.
Someone offer me a thicker smart phone with a great camera, xenon flash (like Sony Ericsson once did with feature phones) and removable battery. With the amount of improvement to smartphone lenses a few more mm of case would maybe even allow a zoom.
If I don't like some of the experiments? That's rather the point.
Eventually I'll have to give up and buy a new phone but literally nothing is released with a removable battery these days.
I don't care if my phone is 2mm thicker, I want the ability to replace the battery because it is a consumable item that will need replacement.
No company seems to want my $1k for a new phone.
As a consumer electronics company founder, I've noticed it's so easy to say "the other guys are idiots why don't they offer me what I want exactly."
It's because hardware is hard. So if you want something made exactly your way, why don't you just build it?
It's never been easier than now to build a hardware product. And the software here is majority open source.