The European Union is moving closer to enacting a law that will require smartphones like the iPhone to have easier battery repairs.

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    1 year ago

    The question isn’t “is it possible?”. It’s “what’s the trade off?”.

    There isn’t a trade off that I wouldn’t consider a massive downgrade to my device.

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      1 year ago

      The tradeoff is that Apple spends R&D resources on making it possible.

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        1 year ago

        It’s literally impossible for it to not take a chunk of the volume budget. There is nothing else that could take that space that could possibly have less value to me.

        The EU is trying to fuck up my phone.