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EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027
(www.pcmag.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Good. Non-replaceable batteries benefit no one but device manufacturers and miners of lithium, cobalt, etc.
I don't think it would really benefit or harm the lithium miners and battery manufacturers - in fact it might benefit them more if they could sell their batteries directly to consumers and skip the middleman, keeping those profits for themselves.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't think that through properly.
Ha yeah, I’ll just buy more batteries so I can always be able to pop in a spare, sigh.