Consumer friendly products

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Why do we have products that are so consumer unfriendly? A specific example is cordless phones. These devices generally have a battery pack that you must replace sometimes yet no one makes a cordless phone that uses standard batteries. So you must go to the store and spend far too much then is necessary to replace the batteries. Often it costs as much to replace the battery pack as it did to buy the product in the first place! What is even more amazing is that these products often do actually use regular batteries packaged with a special connector so that you must get their special replacement battery. One of these phones a friend gave me had a hard plastic frame with connection points on the back. The phone had issues so I broke open the frame and removed three Nickel Cadmium batteries which I am still recharging and using in other devices. Seems this is an untapped market to me. I mean WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! A company that offers consumer friendly products that people want to buy because they make sense, they are user servicable and ment to last. If a company decided to wise up and offer this product I WOULD BUY IT!