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Has anyone else always had a spare phone battery in the pocket to swap on the go?
Imagine you could just do that.
Only EU though
As if they're gonna make a separate iPhone only for the EU. And no way they're gonna ditch that market, which is literally larger than USA's
I am curious how Apple will get around that this time. I’m almost sure this will be as funny as the whole story about the USB-C cables
Simply remove the battery and sell iPhones with magsafe battery pack cases instead?
I have mixed feelings on this. I think there were a few good reasons to move to sealed batteries. In an ideal world you could give consumers choices between the various trade-offs and offer multiple models or variants.
But of course that will never happen because non-replaceable batteries present a far better business case. If they were forced to offer options, the manufacturers would deliberately make the user-replaceable models far shittier and then complain to the regulators that they were unpopular.
However, there is an exemption for high-performing and durable batteries until 2027. This means devices with high quality batteries that retain over 80% of their capacity after 1000 charge cycles do not need to comply with the removable battery requirement until 2027.
So premium phones like the iPhone would be exempt.
*In the EU.
Manufacturers aren't going to make a different model for the rest of the world. It's much cheaper to just make one model.
A good example is Tesla models 75D and 100D - they both have the exact same battery pack but the 75D is electronically limited so that the range is less than on 100D so it's cheaper tho it's the same car.
They would just "underdevelop" other areas to make their phone "breakable" or "prone to accidents". I am not that hyped because of that.
