We did it guys, we made physical devices usable only if you treat them as a SaaS otherwise you're sol when battery runs out

that's a pretty lame take, all I did was break down the cost to the lifespan of the device

it's useful to think of a lot of things this way, I also justify clothing purchases on a rough estimate of cost per wear

Right, and an Oura would be usable for a decade because it has a rechargeable battery.

sure but the Oura does a bunch of unrelated stuff specific to health and also has to be charged twice a week? they're not even comparable products

I don’t understand what you don’t understand. The oura comparison is one they made and used “charging every day” as a reason to not use a rechargeable battery. If they took the oura hardware model and applied it to their voice recorder ring, you would be charging monthly if not longer.

TL;dr - There’s no reason to not have a rechargeable battery other than to create e-waste and “a revenue stream”.