Okay just throwing that in.
EU wants to require smartphone companies to let users replace batteries, instead of buying a new phone.
But the phone companies won’t just accept that and will resist & trying to find backdoors 🤔
Discussed that with nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut yesterday, crazy that its more profitable to design a new phone, instead of investing longterm and saving the money instead.
What are your thoughts on this?
A link I quick searched about it:
You know how the EU ruled that Apple needed to conform to industry standards and use usb-c instead of have their own port and their response was to make a special usb-c of their own that would only work well (if at all?) when all parts were from Apple?
It could be like that. The manufacturer could cut out third parties and charge more than necessary for the parts.
For me it’s the environmental aspect, don’t want to point at any centrality here, we as humanity need to use our resources carefully. It’s sad that big companies like Apple don’t see their useless waste because it’s simply profitable with our fiat system!
