EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items

Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by rrdharan on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:11AM (#30661888)

Why even have multiple brands? Why not just have the government enforce a single manufacturer for each type of item and standardize everything? They could plan if all centrally and… oh wait.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by adhesive_wombat on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:20AM (#30661981)

The point is, if you don't want to support spares for your device, you have the option of using standard parts.

If you want your own part, you have to either make it available, or you have to make it reliable enough that you don't need to.

That would remind the incentive to have parts that fail be profitable. Making unreliable and unserviceable devices should cost you more.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by thfuran on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:33AM (#30662118)

Just mandate reasonably long warranty to force things to be reliable.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:20AM (#30661979)

Why have any rules about what the manufacturers must do at all?

Let them sell us autonomous cars for $1,000 which need a $5,000 subscribtion to drive. Oh, you want to put child i a car, the car won't start unless you add a child add-on.

Oh, you need to go to the hospital, because your wife is giving birth, that will be extra $5,000 one-time fee.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by adhesive_wombat on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:31AM (#30662097)

I can hear Amazon's self driving car division furiously taking notes.

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