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Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries (www.inverse.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

It would be great if the EU steps back:

Dear phone manufacturers. It seems to be impossible to build water resistant phones with easily replaceable batteries. So we have an alternative for you: In future you must provide a unconditional, professional battery replacement, free of charge for 10 years for each individual phone which is water resistant. Since the phones are so water resistant you also have to replace all water damaged phones free of charge.

2 hours later Apple announces a keynote for next week. A week later Tim Cook presents us next years iPhone with an easily replaceable battery…