Battery Platform Lock-In: Innovation vs Stability
Cordless tool platforms are usually sold on tool counts and cell specs, but the decision that actually lasts twenty years is the battery interface — the latch, the keying, the contacts, the communication pins. This episode works through three lenses: availability, innovation, and stability, and where they collide. It covers why retail exclusivity quietly shrinks "300 tools" to whatever one chain happens to stock, how cross-brand adapters and a Makita LXT 3D-printing community signal which platforms have real aftermarket gravity, what Milwaukee REDLINK PLUS, Makita Star Protection, Bosch…
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