Lol who wants to keep a phone for 8 years? It’s gonna be so scratchy you can’t resemble it, and the camera is gonna be trash compared to new phones.Smartphones would be lengthened from 3-4 years to 8 years or more.
Lol who wants to keep a phone for 8 years? It’s gonna be so scratchy you can’t resemble it, and the camera is gonna be trash compared to new phones.Smartphones would be lengthened from 3-4 years to 8 years or more.
First rule of MacRumors forums is that people only read the title of the article, not the content, before replying.If any of you read the article, everything you’re talking about doesn’t apply.
See I stop at the first wordFirst rule of MacRumors forums is that people only read the title of the article, not the content, before replying.
AAA's in the stems.I wonder if this will apply to AirPods.
Actually I'm wondering why they don't just make the stems as a screw on.AAA's in the stems.
Government overstep all over the place...News (in German):
EU beschließt Ende verklebter Akkus
Das EU-Parlament hat eine neue Batterierichtlinie verabschiedet – in dreieinhalb Jahren sollen fest verklebte Akkus in Geräten Geschichte sein.www.golem.de
Press release (English)
Making batteries more sustainable, more durable and better-performing | News | European Parliament
On Wednesday, Parliament approved new rules for the design, production and waste management of all types of batteries sold in the EU.www.europarl.europa.eu
The EU is mandating consumer changeable batteries in 2027, banning glued batteries and other shenanigans.
I don’t think Apple is going to make special MacBook Airs and iPhones for Europe so in 2027 they will probably have changeable batteries again globally!
If you read the article, you'd know it's unclear.If any of you read the article, everything you’re talking about doesn’t apply.
If I read https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237_EN.pdf correctly (article 11), it will fully apply to them. This will be interesting.What about AppleWatch, Airpods etc?
You can look up the definitions in article 3: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237_EN.pdfThe article refers to "portable batteries in appliances," which.. I don't know what that means, I'm afraid.
The article, at least the English language one, doesn't say squat. I'm assuming you read the article, so let me ask: One of the bullet items says that the law requires "A due diligence policy for all economic operators, except for SMEs".If any of you read the article, everything you’re talking about doesn’t apply.
Ok, so there's a thread, now what?Actually I'm wondering why they don't just make the stems as a screw on.
They could probably do that, BUT they’d have to make them usable as batteries for something external.Maybe Apple can just call the Airpods batteries with non replaceable sound drivers.
Make the charge cable bidirectional so I can charge my MacBook from my Airpods.They could probably do that, BUT they’d have to make them usable as batteries for something external.
I'm not sure about every model, but the Airpods Pro in 2019 had more than just a battery in the stem. According to the iFixit teardown, Step 12, there's a battery, antenna, microphones, and a "mysterious black rectangle" speculated to be a sensor.Actually I'm wondering why they don't just make the stems as a screw on.
Also a problem with having someone else replace the battery is the down time. You will be without your iPhone for more than an hour, day or even a week.
Actually, they do. They could finally say "enough is enough" to the EU and stop selling products with batteries in their member countries. With the built-in demand for their products, they could rely on 3rd parties to buy their phones and sell them in the affected territories on the grey/black market.I guess apple has no choice but being green now…not just gaslighting their customers 🙂
I had an employee not be able to avail of the $29 Apple battery half a decade ago because the Apple Service Center made it so inconvenient to replace.You should also add to that downtime erasing and then restoring a device, which can add some extra hours on top of that. If we could easily replace the battery ourselves, as in a watch or car key, it would be so much simpler and would save quite a bit of time!
Interesting way of looking at it.What I always find interesting is counting the number of slaves who want to be slaves not out of necessity, but out of attitude, as the only perspective of life.
There is someone who tells a company 'hey, you have to make your products user repairable and replaceable batteries', but it is full of slaves ready to defend their slave owner, instead of asking 'sorry, why don't we have user repairable products and replaceable batteries, and it has to be a third party to impose it?'.
They are ready to lace at the third subject.
When you say slaves by attitude.
Interesting way of looking at it.
I'm technically inclined or so I think. I used to help people upgrade the storage and batteries on their iPods. I even replaced some batteries on the iPhone 4s.
But after the 6, I stopped doing that. It just got too difficult with the way they were sealing phones. I could probably do it, but the risk of failure was pretty high - a risk I wasn't willing to take.
Fast forward to today's phones? Yeah, no... my wife and I have had several phones destroyed by Apple Geniuses themselves when attempting to replace the battery (6s+) or get a screen replacement (13 PM).
People wanted super thin water proof premium material devices and that's what they got. (I have fond memories of my Note 3's plastic tear off back and the phone was very thin but the OEM battery lost 50% capacity in half a year and the 3rd party ones didn't do much better...).
I've seen so many old iPhones at colleges that if it were easy and convenient, these phones could last quite a bit longer with a battery change.
More runaround 😵💫:You can look up the definitions in article 3: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237_EN.pdf
- ‘appliance’ means any electrical or electronic equipment, as defined in Article 3(1), point (a), of Directive 2012/19/EU, which is fully or partly powered by a battery or is capable of being so
(a) 'electrical and electronic equipment or 'EEE' means equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly and equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields and designed for use with a voltage rating not exceeding 1 000 volts for alternating current and 1 500 volts for direct current;
Yeah irreparable devices are a "design choice". Im sure they can over engineer a phone with superb water resistance and a removable battery.Actually, they do. They could finally say "enough is enough" to the EU and stop selling products with batteries in their member countries. With the built-in demand for their products, they could rely on 3rd parties to buy their phones and sell them in the affected territories on the grey/black market.
Don't get me wrong, I know Apple would never do this but it sure would be interesting if they did. If they don't, they are basically telling the EU that they can dictate the design of all Apple products going forward.
-kp