Contrary to the EU-fanboys on here, Apple (and the industry) don't need to be told to look out for the consumer... they are listening to the consumer. They always have been. It's us, who pay, with our hard earned cash for thinner, faster, more reliable, longer lasting, lower cost phones / tablets / computers. It's Apple (key innovator) and the copycats (Samsung, et. al.) who made the engineering decisions and increased the bar. These things were the likes of laminated screens, built in batteries (multiple batteries to fit into more advanced shapes), removal of some ports that 90% of people don't use on a portable... WE BUY THEM. We voted.
Haha, no that's absolutely not how it works. We voted on the best alternative, but nothing about that signals time value or intrest of individual parts of the product. It's all or nothing.
Alongside financial incentives to make things harder to repair will make it more likely new devices are purchased instead.
Gosh, the EU and its fans fail to respect peoples voting. They decide for us that they represent us all.
The Eu respects people's vote. You should learn how it works.
For the non EU folks here, this is exactly why we left in the UK - because these kind of decisions are made, without the average person knowing, being asked, or voting for them. And while we're on that, these people also are unelected. It's insane. There is lots of good, lots of positive and amazing things behind the EU and the idea of the EU, but there are definitely major flaws and this is one of them. It's a shame it affects Apple (and therefore all of us).
The EU is governed by a dual executive: the Council and the Commission and isn't run by unelected byrocrats, this is how its elected.
- EU parlament : directly elected.
- EU council: 27 Directly elected heads of states of every member(+ 2 commission & council president non-voting seets) members The President of the EU Council is elected by the EU Council by a qualified majority for a once-renewable term of two and a half years. The President must report to the European Parliament after each European Council meeting.
- Council of EU: Minister from memebr state government(elected acording to national rules) and The pesidency of the Council rotates every six months among the governments of EU member states, with the relevant ministers of the respective country holding the Presidency at any given time ensuring the smooth running of the meetings and setting the daily agenda
- EU commission: where each member state nominates a commissioner (27 ministers) that has to be approved by the European Parliament.
Different voting criteria’s.
- Simple Majority vote: the majority of precent MEPs vote to approve legislation.
- Absolute majority vote: Means half of the total number of MEPs (currently 376 out of 751) this is used for electing the President of the European Parliament, approving the Commission, rejecting an act under delegated or implementing powers, etc
- Qualified majority vote: A qualified majority. This means that a proposal is adopted if it meets two conditions: (a) it is supported by at least 55% of the MEPs voting (not counting abstentions); and (b) it represents at least 65% of the population of the Member States represented by those MEPs. And The European Parliament uses qualified majority voting when voting on amendments proposed by the Council in the second reading of the ordinary legislative procedure. Qualified majority is also the most widely used voting method in the Council. It is used when the Council takes decisions during the ordinary legislative procedure, also known as co-decision. About 80% of all EU legislation is adopted with this procedure
Every government has bureaucrats which are by nature unelected. While the EU has around 33,000 of them, the British government employs over 400,000 civil servants.
...what's that other big power that Apple has to make a slightly different iPhone for again...?
Modular, multiple removable battery, user replaceable screen batteries and phones already exist in the market. They sell in low volume because in reality, nobody really wants that above the advantages of integrated systems as we have.
Not supported by any data and just a correlative relationship with no causative relation. Just as many times android phones have objectively superior capabilities, yet still iPhone is bought by the millions. Could
It be iOS is more important? iOS users can’t pick an iPhone with other capabilities, so those who thinks iOS is important can’t vote on other Apple products.
Arguments in right to repair a la Louiss Rossman are not based in reality. Why does Apple replace your iPhone in store? Because a company, even the size of Apple cannot pay a number of highly skilled micro-soldering engineers, the hours spent doing the repair etc in every retail location... while you wait, with the odds that it's a 50/50 bet if it'll work.
Or hear me out, I can chose to go to another repairman who provides the service and repair the phone on the spot by soldering and being more environmentally friendly and cheaper? While you who wants to send it to Apple and wait a week can do that.
We live in a world where we make things to be recyclable. Because by the time your Mac is 7 years old, for the same money or less, there's a faster, more recyclable, more efficient, energy sparing model that can step in and do the job. Same with cars. Same with any consumer industry today. It's more sensible to give things a defined life, then accept that within 5 years, a better solution (by miles) will exist and be kinder to the planet and usually our wallets too.
It’s always cheaper to repair something than to replace the whole thing. And way cheaper and friendlier to the environment. You could buy a new 2.000$ iMac etc or spend 60$ to repair it and get 5 extra years.
Replace a 1$ chip instead of the entire motherboard for 1.000$. Replace the battery for 60$ instead 1.000$+ for the top case.
Whatever next ? Allowing third party cellular device manufacturers to be able to make iOS devices to compete with Apple ?😂
Lol xD software copyright hasn't changed.
The concerning thing is, they have the power to do this, unquestioned. And the only thing Apple could do is take it to their high court.
Despite my disagreement with it, USB-C will be handy. The battery thing, not so much for the average person... Just imagine they take it that far. With no objection or listening to the other side, who knows, they might get confident enough to do this then boom, industry and innovation ruined
Well they have been part in the discussion with the commission. Mmajor parties that are affected are invited to discuss the legal frameworks. Then it's but up go discussion by the political sides.
At best, it will only stop Apple from gluing in the battery (tried removing these on MacBook Pro's before, nightmare and dangerous with the force needed - at least without Apple tools). At worst, they'll say 'that's not good enough' and force Apple to make removable back covers as even screws and exposing the other internals is deemed too much to expect consumers to do...
or like they did with one of their new computers and putt tape with pull straps
I don't miss those days when you used to drop your phone and the cover / battery fell out... that stopped with my first iPhone. Going back... not forward (potentially)
Again it's not about the consumer. But the device to be easier to repair to counteract wasteful behavior for fully functional devices.
LOL! That shopworn sexist trope!
Grannies these days include lawyers, computer scientists, reporters, CPAs, data analysts, investment bankers, astrophysicists, politicians, educators, research scientists, engineers, writers, etc.
They often know their way around computers as well as or better any other demographic — often better given their years of experience on different devices!
Not at all, but old people tend to be technologically illiterate compared to you Der people. Especially when the majority is casual and not tech savvy consumers. C
