Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte...
by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:00PM
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It’s not a large market because people generally don’t want one, but it’s hardly limited to boutiques either. Nokia and Samsung both sell smartphones with replaceable batteries.
Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte...
by Tams80 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:18PM
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Not ones anywhere near the 'flagships'. It's a niche, but those us who do want hardly have even the option to 'vote with our wallets'. Especially for something that has become near a necessity.
And you completely avoided their very valid point that the likes of asbestos and lead. Perhaps because you have no counter to it?
Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte...
by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:41PM
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I guess I'm not sure what your standards are here. If you're expecting that there should be phones identical in every way to flagship models except that the battery is removable, I don't think that's reasonable, since the entire point is that the design requirement of a removable battery requires tradeoffs.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make about asbestos and leaded gasoline. I support those regulations because they cover much more important issues. As far as I know nobody's gotten lung cancer from not being able to remove their phone's battery.
You need a mobile phone and you have very few choices. How exactly are you protesting? By shooting yourself in the foot and not getting a phone? By going to boutique manufacturers who can barely supply 1% of the market?
Your reasoning is good on paper but not realistic. I'll say it again, the reason you don't have asbestos in your walls or lead in the air (from fuel) isn't because you voted with your wallet but because governments did their part. That should be evidence enough that your assumption is wildly idealistic.