Good news, but water resistent products are hard with removable/replaceable batteries. Maybe a fixed price for a battery replacement (indicated at the day of purchase and adjusted by inflation) in customer service for 10-15 years could be a better option.
YES YES YES!
Does this apply to smartphones?
I want a spare battery for every piece of hardware that I have, having to throw away something, just because they no longer service it, repair it etc is just plain wrong.
Being able to swap a battery wasn’t a luxury 5 years ago…burned through 3 batteries on my Note 2 back in the day, cuz they got super fucked in the sun, but being able to go to the store and buy a new one vs putting it away for a few days until it gets removed, ordered, placed and glued in again just makes life so much easier.
We just need designated places where we can take in our old batteries for them to be safely destroyed or repurposed instead of being stupid and throwing it in the bin.
Let’s hope it gets implemented sooner than later. Just last week I had to trash a perfectly functional e-book reader because of the battery not charging anymore (no way to find any compatible battery). This should not happen, replacing should be not only possible, but also easy, which means replacement batteries should be easy to find, not “Yes you can open the device, no, we don’t sell any battery replacement).
While they are at it, they should find a way to force microsoft (and google for chrome os) to provide security updates for a lot longer, I can’t start to think how many perfectly good pc will be trashed when windows 10 won’t get anymore security updates.
This needs to be implemented to laptops too.
Once more the European Parliament wants to control details about technology when they have no competence. Right of repair is one thing, but forcing this on phones is not possible without sacrificing either size or battery life.
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Wow that 29 star flag looks cool but why 29?
*EU
Would be so good.
Good news, but water resistent products are hard with removable/replaceable batteries. Maybe a fixed price for a battery replacement (indicated at the day of purchase and adjusted by inflation) in customer service for 10-15 years could be a better option.
YES YES YES!
Does this apply to smartphones?
I want a spare battery for every piece of hardware that I have, having to throw away something, just because they no longer service it, repair it etc is just plain wrong.
Being able to swap a battery wasn’t a luxury 5 years ago…burned through 3 batteries on my Note 2 back in the day, cuz they got super fucked in the sun, but being able to go to the store and buy a new one vs putting it away for a few days until it gets removed, ordered, placed and glued in again just makes life so much easier.
We just need designated places where we can take in our old batteries for them to be safely destroyed or repurposed instead of being stupid and throwing it in the bin.
Let’s hope it gets implemented sooner than later. Just last week I had to trash a perfectly functional e-book reader because of the battery not charging anymore (no way to find any compatible battery). This should not happen, replacing should be not only possible, but also easy, which means replacement batteries should be easy to find, not “Yes you can open the device, no, we don’t sell any battery replacement).
While they are at it, they should find a way to force microsoft (and google for chrome os) to provide security updates for a lot longer, I can’t start to think how many perfectly good pc will be trashed when windows 10 won’t get anymore security updates.
This needs to be implemented to laptops too.
Once more the European Parliament wants to control details about technology when they have no competence. Right of repair is one thing, but forcing this on phones is not possible without sacrificing either size or battery life.