• Thadrax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes I think it’s very good that the EU is pushing smartphone makers to have replaceable batteries. I hope these companies don’t find a way around that.

    I really wished they would give manufacturers options. Either offer a reasonably priced replacement service or make it user replaceable. I personally don’t want the downsides of an easily replaceable battery and I never had a phone die on me due to battery issues - and if it happened I would gladly have someone else replace it.

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      1 year ago

      I mean… you can still do that. I’m pretty sure there’s gonna be services to do that for you even if it would be easy to do it yourself. There’s plenty of people who have no interest to do anything like that to their devices.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but there won’t be the option to buy a phone that doesn’t have to compromise for a (easily) replaceable battery. Manufacturers don’t just do that for more profit, it makes engineering the device easier and requires less compromises.

        Stuff like that needs space, so the phone is going to get bigger or the battery smaller.