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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:

The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see them changing the battery design every year and refusing to make old ones, or just making the batteries cost almost as much as a new phone.

[–] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

EU is not in it's first Rodeo.

refusing to make batteries, covered, regulation demands 5 years of supplying spare batteries from the putting of the last unit of the product model to the market
yanking prices sky high, covered, regulation says spare batteries must be offered at reasonable cost and non-discriminatory basis
software locking out third party batteries, covered, regulation say software cannot be used to impede using compatible batteries.
trying to get money via selling special tools, covered, special tools can't be demanded to be used to disassemble the product to change the battery, unless said tools is provided free of charge with the product.

Not EU's first rodeo.

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think if only they did this and the rest of the companies don't they would lose a big chunk of their market share, because a lot of people realy want those replacebal battery's

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing with apple is that at this point they don't have customers, they have followers. People for whom this will be a deal breaker jumped the ship long ago, now the company can do whatever it wants and people will still buying the product, not because of whatever product does, but because they are people who buy Apple. The bad thing is that other companies will copy everything they do because they don't really understand the dynamics.

[–] compact_ravioli@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When I talked with friends or family no one ever mentioned wanting a replaceable battery..always just the new big screen, the camera or the speed. Some didn't even understand the difference between having 4GB of RAM or 4GB of storage.

I'd like to be wrong but I think most people don't really care and some will even complain about it.

Last time I bought a phone was around 3 years ago and when I asked about a new phone with a replaceable battery the guy just looked at me and asked "Why would you want that?"