When the EU mandates this it’ll be the fastest eating of your words anyone’s ever seen.
All of a sudden trillion dollar smartphone companies will magically have the engineering talents to produce a waterproof and thin phone with a replaceable battery.
I dunno guys do you think a company that designed a mobile phone chip with 20 billion transistors in it can make a battery door with a gasket?
If that engineering talent is readily available, please by all means build the Framework of phones. I would love to buy it. You don't need regulations to do that, if there's sufficient demand.
The engineering talent to build supersonic planes or moon rockets also was readily available. But that doesn't mean that they were viable business strategies for profit-maximizing companies. Sometimes engineering better products has to come from government mandates, not c-suite mandates.
Is it not obvious? There's a business equation being made that keeping the batteries internal encourages new device purchases.
Replacing the battery in an iPhone costs $99 and takes hours to days of time where your phone is unavailable.
Or you can just trade it in and pay nothing while your carrier subsidizes it and bills you monthly with 0% interest.
The customer is given an incentive structure that leads them to the maximum profit route…obviously that’s what businesses want, and why every industry has regulations that constrains business to live inside some basic rules.
All of a sudden trillion dollar smartphone companies will magically have the engineering talents to produce a waterproof and thin phone with a replaceable battery.
I dunno guys do you think a company that designed a mobile phone chip with 20 billion transistors in it can make a battery door with a gasket?