hahaha,everytime something weird pop up out of the sky from Apple,there is always some people who finds it a very reasonable choice.Like they would find it ridicilous ever.They asking 200$ for battery.Really? And thats reasonable? Yea,right.Especial when is not covered by Apple care warranty.I would call that on my scale from insane to idiotic VERY TO HIGH REASONABLE!Riiight. Shut up and take my money,because im retarded.
To you, the people who shrug at this say, "So what?" seem brainwashed. To me, your crusade against this decision by Apple looks terribly naive and misguided. The battery lasts this long because they fill up the internal of the computer with an irregularly-shaped thing, glued to the computer. And they can make the computer itself thin and light while you still get a unique, ultra-fast computer with a matchless screen. Don't like it? Buy a Dell, or any of the dozens of PCs they make. They have batteries, standard-issue. You can buy a replacement. It's heavier, it makes the battery rattle, the computer needs to be bulkier, there's a door that the hinge breaks on it. But you can replace the battery for cheaper.
When you include the labor for unsticking the old battery and regluing another one in, $200's not bad. Bet over the life of your Dell, you'll spend more than that on replacement batteries.