EU works on new 'Right to Repair' rules for sustainable batteries
appleinsider.com
The European Union is moving closer to enacting a law that will not just require smartphones like the iPhone to have easier battery repairs, but it will also mandate how much of a battery must be reclaimable after recycling.

The European Union is moving closer to enacting a law that will require smartphones like the iPhone to have easier battery repairs.

  • @hanniEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    The tradeoff is that Apple spends R&D resources on making it possible.

    • conciselyverbose
      1•1 year ago

      It’s literally impossible for it to not take a chunk of the volume budget. There is nothing else that could take that space that could possibly have less value to me.

      The EU is trying to fuck up my phone.