Sweeping new law will force replaceable batteries on smartphones in the EU

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pleaseeeeeeee bring this to the u.s. 🤞

As long as they're not region locked, you should hopefully be able to import them if nothing else. I'd absolutely pay some extra import costs to be able to easily swap out my battery.

you're right :D i'd have to make sure all the cellular bands work but yeah, i'm with you, replacable batteries are awesome. would help reduce on ewaste, too!

Same. I'm perfectly happy with my current phone. Especially when the changes to knew phones tends to be less and less now, and its mostly just adding more power which I currently dont need. I plan to get the battery changed in probably another year to stretch out its use. But it's gonna cost me money to get it done. So with my next phone I might as well just pay to get it shipped instead of having to take it to someone.

I'm hoping that, similar to USB-C, this just forces Apple to make the iPhone better.

lol the eu has to continue to strangle apple to stop propritarizing(?)

In most cases, when the EU passes a law to make something happen, it's cheaper for manufacturers to make that EU-compliant device available worldwide rather than make a specific version just for the EU market. So, I'd expect user-replaceable batteries in flagship smartphones to be available in the US by 2027 also.

i read something like that somewhere and forgot about it and you totally reminded me of that concept :D thank you 💙

I'm aware that this might be an incorrect generalization, but I do think that in general the EU gov takes more care about the EU people well-being than of corporations', while the US gov does the opposite. At least this is how I feel living in the EU.