Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
I wish this would and bring replaceable phone batteries back to the US as well, since it would theoretically be easier for brands just have a single model for all countries so if they are forced to have replaceable batteries in Europe then they’d end up having them in the US too, but unfortunately I highly doubt that we’ll be the case, as demonstrated by Apple taking extra effort to put geolocation code in their phones that unlocks “sideloading” when you are in Europe but then locks it again when you’re outside of your Europe. As it turns out the extra effort it takes to create an exception to your hardware and software for Europe is far outweighed by the extra profit of being able to keep giving a more locked down products to everyone else.
I’d love it so much if part of the EU’s restrictions involved limiting their ability to do these things in other countries as well if they plan to sell products there.
I wish this would and bring replaceable phone batteries back to the US as well, since it would theoretically be easier for brands just have a single model for all countries so if they are forced to have replaceable batteries in Europe then they’d end up having them in the US too, but unfortunately I highly doubt that we’ll be the case, as demonstrated by Apple taking extra effort to put geolocation code in their phones that unlocks “sideloading” when you are in Europe but then locks it again when you’re outside of your Europe. As it turns out the extra effort it takes to create an exception to your hardware and software for Europe is far outweighed by the extra profit of being able to keep giving a more locked down products to everyone else.
I’d love it so much if part of the EU’s restrictions involved limiting their ability to do these things in other countries as well if they plan to sell products there.