Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by Barrin92 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:26PM (#36469899)

Those people don't live in the EU. And anyhow the higher cost of the phone are balanced out by the increased longevity and support of the device. Lifetime cost may very well be lower when people end up replacing their phones less frequently and just have to swap a battery.

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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:55PM (#36470233)

Has the EU also made poverty illegal?

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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by Barrin92 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:44PM (#36470804)

Sort of? Almost all EU countries have social welfare nets and public services strong enough to have people's basic needs covered. I think in most countries welfare even directly covers basic phone plans.

We aren't in a situation where we need to allow environmentally damaging products here for the sake of the poor because they're not out on their own. This sounds like the old pro-sweatshop arguments people sometimes made about developing countries.

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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:22PM (#36471155)

https://www.slowboring.com/p/they-have-homelessness-in-europ....

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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:22PM (#36473249)

Poverty is a relative thing, not absolute. As for your link downthread - homelessness has many more causes than just not being able to afford a place to stay.

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Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart... by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:52PM (#36475576)

So what are those many causes where people have money and choose to live on the streets?

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