The European Union is working on legislation that would require smartphone design to have easily replaceable batteries, but we doubt Apple would agree willingly.
  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    3 years ago

    Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.

    I hate Apple, but I’m not going to pretend that a lot of other phones are as unfixable, or close to.

  • abcd@feddit.deEnglish
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    3 years ago

    It would be great if the EU steps back:

    Dear phone manufacturers. It seems to be impossible to build water resistant phones with easily replaceable batteries. So we have an alternative for you: In future you must provide a unconditional, professional battery replacement, free of charge for 10 years for each individual phone which is water resistant. Since the phones are so water resistant you also have to replace all water damaged phones free of charge.

    2 hours later Apple announces a keynote for next week. A week later Tim Cook presents us next years iPhone with an easily replaceable battery…

  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    They will though, at least in Europe. Otherwise they will lose that market entirely

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I would think that as long as a battery is replaceable, it should suffice to meet environmental requirements.

    Specifically regarding the iPhone, with the current battery replacement cost being under $100, I find it difficult to understand this being such an issue where an entire continent needs to make a rule against the design.

    But I understand some people just want the ability to fix their own shit without having to bring it in for service. And I know this isn’t just about phones but nearly everything that has a battery.

  • aluminium@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    So glad to see the Apple fans here aren’t a bunch of blind yesmen. With an R&D budget the size of Apple’s I am sure theres a way to figure somwthing out.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Especially since waterproof phones with replaceable batteries already existed. They aren’t exactly working from nothing.

        • scutiger@lemmy.world
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          3 years ago

          I don’t think anybody really cares about an extra half millimetre of thickness, especially if it means that you can save hundreds in replacement costs and extend its life by a few years. Nobody’s buying an iPhone and busting out the calipers to compare it to their previous phone.

          • Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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            3 years ago

            I care. This thing’s already thick and heavy enough, and I don’t particularly care about popping the back off my phone to replace a battery. It’s like…once every two years that I have to replace it.

          • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 years ago

            You also start running into usability issues. There’s only so thin a phone can be before it’s less of a phone, and more of a blade that’ll bend if you sneeze at it wrong.