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EU will require removable batteries from 2027 (www.consilium.europa.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:

The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should be forced to provide open bootloaders, firmware and kernel drivers once the devices reach end of life.

How would you propose it?

You wouldn't be able to say "smartphones" as not all run Android obviously. Limiting legislation to Android specifically would make no sense either, OEMs may just do hard forks then (ahem, HarmonyOS).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not force Apple too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would like it, but I feel that it would be harder to convince legislators that it is an actually practical use case.

Because besides Android and iOS, there is also for example Tizen and KaiOS. Is there a market for custom software for those devices? And if not, why require it?