EU objects. The replaceable battery regulation kicks in 2025 and I believe it will apply to devices like AirTag.
Comment on AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months agoOnly thing I could see is making them somewhat harder to tamper with and sealed with a rechargeable battery.
They fit on the Apple Watch charger exactly. A lot of people assumed they were originally supposed to be rechargeable.
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I don’t know how that could possibly been seen as an “upgrade”.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It could be used to make the device completely waterproof.
Ross_audio@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are plenty of waterproof devices with replaceable batteries.
The idea you have to seal in the battery (and the device goes to landfill instead of getting a replacement) is a myth.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Of course it can be made waterproof with a replaceable battery, but would you trust your grandma to swap such a battery so that it stays waterproof?
Would you want to be the customer support for a device like that with a billion users? The amount of idiots failing to close the case properly and drowning their device is staggering, and the idiots are usually the ones who call CS to complain…
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, it’s a stretch for sure.
That said, because the tracking network way broader than the other BT trackers, stalkers do love use and mod these little things. And they’re very un-Apple like, in that they’re easy to open up.
Stalking has been the one thing that AirTags constantly get slammed for in the press about. I wouldn’t be surprised if they sold an updated tracker that was sealed, packed full of resin, and marketed as “more secure.”