In two years time Apple will be forced to make the battery user replaceable and that one will most likely benefit everyone; unless Apple wants to release two versions of every iPhone to comply with EU regulations which they won’t.
European iPhones are more fun now
Submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/24/24226946/iphone-eu-regulation-app-stores-fortnite
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FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 months ago
datendefekt@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Just like with USB-C, which the EU regulated and now the iPad and IPhone have.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 months ago
the stupidest thing is iPad had USB-C since 2018! and yet on iPhones they latched on to lightning for another 6 years before EU forced them to standardize
hushable@lemmy.world 2 months ago
no no no, that was just Apple being brave /s
Fishytricks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When they do come to it. I hope its the easily swappable like the ones in Nokia 3310. Otherwise its pointless imo.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AFAIK, the EU defines “user replaceable” as literally that; you open a hatch, pull the battery out and stick a new one in.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hopefully they keep selling a phone with no replaceable battery. Id rather have the weather proofing than a battery i need to swap out one time after owning the phone for over 4 years.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How many times has your phone needed the weather proofing in the last 4 years? Mine is 0, at least twice. On the flip side, I have needed a new battery 2 times.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 2 months ago
The two features are not mutually esclusive. I owned an S5 which was waterproof and had replaceable battery more than 10 years ago. It did not seems too hard to do
Nurgle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone will benefit, but have to imagine relatively few will buy tools to actually take advantage of it.
moon@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Begging iPhone to play the catch up game and just have Android’s basic features lol
Remavas@programming.dev 2 months ago
Except that many Android phones also don’t have replaceable batteries anymore.
1984@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Hope it doesnt lead to smaller batteries though. It feels like it could since they have to put the battery so it’s accessible.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Depends on what you mean by “replaceable”. It’s quite easy to replace the batteries on most modern phones. The problem is actually acquiring the batteries, as well as the new batteries actually working after installation. Apple is the only one that specifically programs their devices not to work properly if you replace the components in them yourself, and refuses to sell you OEM components.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, here he is. I was worried for a second we’ve lost him.
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Never lose cum.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I switched from android to Iphone and there is nothing I miss, I certainly don’t miss how shit the the usb in-ears were on android, all of them haf issues
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel so lucky to have never bought into the apple mobile ecosystem every time I have to test any of my web apps on iOS safari. What a shit browser (which you have no choice but to use).
Not to mention having to own several special lightning shit cables to support my test devices. 🤮 They only switched to usb-c because the EU forced them. That detail alone is enough to know what a shit line of products they are cultivating.
But yeah takes me about one second to miss my android device
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What the hell? There are literally full OS alternatives for Android phones. The comment is light on specifics and none of it rings true afaik
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The more they get regulated, the better their stuff becomes*. It’s wild that people are on the side of Apple for a lot of this stuff, most prominently probably with third party app stores supposedly “decreasing security”.
Sent from my MacBook :^)
* At least when it comes to consumer rights regulations. I’m still mad about China demanding they remove the option to accept AirDrop from everyone without a time limit on iPhones and Apple then implementing that restriction globally for whatever godforsaken reason.
cevn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you import iphone from EU does it have these features or is it determined by the region you are using the phone from?
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Wow, can’t wait to not only have my data harvested by Apple but also Google!
FFS, stop cumming for Chrome and start using Firefox!
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
There’s no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn’t make financial sense to port it.
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Did they say that? Cause it looks like there is at least some work being done on this:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872
vii@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What exactly is there to port anyway?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By the time the masses move it will be an enshittified fork of chrome.
Petter1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Edge?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wasn’t Firefox starting to implement some bullshit too?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Always has been.
mke@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What do you believe Mozilla was implementing?
tibi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s really not, Safari does a pretty good job keeping up with standards and whatnot.