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Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries
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Does this really need an explanation?
Non-replaceable batteries provide zero benefits.
Swappable batteries allow you to just carry extras instead of being tethered to a charger. I used to literally never plug my phone in. Just swap batteries one or twice a day.
It's the first component to die in most phones, and people can't be bothered or don't realize you can have them replaced, so they just throw them in the garbage. That's why they started doing it in the first place.
Note to nr. 2, this does not mandate builds where you can just pull off the back, take the battery out and put a new one in. They can still require basic tools to open, but requiring specialized tools or glueing it shut isn't allowed.
That’s fair, but some don’t want to be able to swap out the batteries on demand, we just want to be able to replace a worn one every few years for less than $100. USB power is so ubiquitous these days that having access to quick charging isn’t an issue for most people, and Qi is pretty convenient.
Again, there is no trade-off. If you want to just plug your phone in and be tethered to a wall, you can still do that.