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European iPhones are more fun now

www.theverge.com European iPhones are more fun now

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European iPhones are more fun now

www.theverge.com /2024/8/24/24226946/iphone-eu-regulation-app-stores-fortnite

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In two years time Apple, and every other smartphone manufacturer on the EU market for that matter, 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.
- Just like with USB-C, which the EU regulated and now the iPad and IPhone have.
  
  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
  
  no no no, that was just Apple being brave /s
- When they do come to it. I hope its the easily swappable like the ones in Nokia 3310. Otherwise its pointless imo.
  
  AFAIK, the EU defines "user replaceable" as literally that; you open a hatch, pull the battery out and stick a new one in.
- Hopefully they keep selling a phone with no user 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.
  
  Why only 4 years? The fairphone 5 is water resistant and has a replacable battery. The Samsung Galaxy S5 was fully waterproof and had a replacable battery.
  
  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.
  
  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
- Everyone will benefit, but have to imagine relatively few will buy tools to actually take advantage of it.
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.
If you import iphone from EU does it have these features or is it determined by the region you are using the phone from?

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