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[–] slipperydippery 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do security updates for a minimum of 5 years next

[–] WhoRoger 21 points 1 year ago

Or just open source the drivers and we'll have all the updates forever.

[–] ultrahamster64 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back to the good old times! :)

[–] BombOmOm 10 points 1 year ago

Really pumped that one of the major things making phones obsolete after a few years will just be...gone!

[–] WhoRoger 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Omfg

The EU is good for something.

Tho it's still a shame that it's not the customers demand that is making this happen.

Mandatary memory card support and physical SIM forever next.

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

Why did manufacturers take these features away???

[–] WhoRoger 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they can sell you another phone sooner.

[–] YellowGas 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now they can sell you overpriced serial-locked gimped batteries because where else are you going to buy them? I'm not entirely convinced that manufacturers weren't behind this. Who wouldn't want users to have to continually come back to them for replaceable items?

[–] WhoRoger 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True, this directive can yet become toothless if the available batteries are overpriced and gimped. However they already do it anyway, so at the very least one won't need to take the entire phone apart to change them.

And some manufacturers are already relatively friendlier to battery replacement, so those will probably continue to do so. Apple and the like will surely kick you every step of the way to a new battery, but Nokia or Motorola maybe not.

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

To make the phones "waterproof" which is funny because even tho phones are water "waterproof" manufactures won't warrenty them out if there's water damage. Doesn't make much sense to me.

[–] zczgws 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple's gonna def overcharge for the replacements

[–] TigerClawTV 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

With how capable modern mobile CPUs are phones could really last a long time without feeling "so last generation" very fast. So the battery really often is the bottleneck and not having it be replaceable would really just be planned obsolescence with extra steps. It's good to hear some good news once in a while.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good! Bring back keyboards too!

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago

I'll cum if I see a good phone with a keyboard again