Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won’t anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

  • Tag365@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does this mean they’ll mandate SD card slots and headphone ports too?

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      1 year ago

      Don’t worry. Phone manufacturers will appease this in the most frustrating way possible. Kind of like how apple does the at home replacement hardware.

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      1 year ago

      Doubtful since those are not required for the life/longevity of the tech.

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        1 year ago

        Which this isn’t totally solving. Don’t get me wrong this is a good thing. But the real issue with planned obsolescence is OS support.

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          1 year ago

          Very true, limited OS support kills most devices eventually, sadly there is only so much you can mandate as many apps and programs will stop working on old OS as they are updated. What should be criminal is apple patching old OS too purposely slow them down.