All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU::undefined

  • @orrk
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    71 year ago

    The EU has a good track record on making companies adopt these standards.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Unless fines hurt the company financially, they are fees. I used to work for a nursery owner who filled his water truck from the hydrant because the fine cost less than the water from the water company.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      USB C has been pushed for at least four years now. No it does not have a good track record.

      Maybe Google is nice enough to comply. Fair! But apples larger and doesn’t. Which speaks volumes. You know what I mean? It’s ironic because USA does nothing about it…at all. But it’s unfortunate because every iPhone still uses that crappy lightning cable and AFAIK I read something saying they make $200m a year on accessories like those cables and adapters.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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        1 year ago

        The new iPhone 15 is launching with a USB c port, the iPad moved there a little while ago and their laptops and such all have usb C ports

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I hope so. I don’t plan on renewing my iphone for awhile, I like pixels open firmware stuff with graphene and even just Android. But I hate carrying around the extra special apple cable

          • @orrk
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            11 year ago

            The argument that a law was not literally spawned in the year something came up, Nor a law working retrospectively on the design of devices produced before the law, is not any indication of a bad track record,

            In fact, by what you have said here, I would argue that 4 years to push an industry-wide norm in 26 separate nations, with feedback from said industry is an incredibly good track record.