European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by waboremo on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:12PM (#36363147)

Not sure how much weight this really has in a market such as mobile phones in which additional external competitors are never going to become a reality.

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Re:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batt... by wongarsu on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:08PM (#36364589)

OnePlus was a nobody when they launched the OnePlus One in 2014. They could have easily gone out of business.

And that's one that got big enough to remember them. Wikipedia lists 188 mobile phone manufacturers [1]. A lot of them very local (e.g. EvertekTunisie making phones for Tunisia and Morocco) or defunct; But even my local (German) retailer offers 35 brands. Big ones like Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi, budget brands like Oppo or ZTE, niche brands like CAT or Beafon. It's a crowded market that doesn't seem particularly hard to enter.

And judging by the spotty compatibility of LineageOS they don't all use the same hardware either.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mobile_phone_manufact...

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