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A comment on EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items. Parent comment

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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