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Hopefully this will benefit other countries indirectly, instead of designing one repairable phone and one not repairable, should be easier to just design one.
"Hold my beer" - Nintendo, releasing an EU centric revision. Meanwhile Apple and Samsung are digging up every legal loophole to prevent the law applying to their devices.
Apple and Samsung be like: "It's not a mobile phone or a tablet, it's a phablet so it does not fall in to any category of the devices that need to be repairable."
The loophole in the directive is smaller phones. Smartphones go from 10.16 cm (4 inches) diagonal to 17. 78cm (7 inches) and everything bigger (up to 44.2 cm) is a tablet.
Samsung and Apple's flagship smartphones are very close to be considered tablets but that wouldn't save them from the requirements.
Apple: hey fans, did you know the best phone is actually small?!!
I think Nintendo will transition to having only one version on the long term, precisely not to have to deal with two versions.
i wonder, do we know what will be the price difference between the EU centric version and the international version?
The past two phones I bought were not because they broke, but because they stopped being supported on apps that I need to use.
That's also included in the directive. Manufactures will be required to provide OS updates for at least 5 years "from the date of end of placement on the market" (which means the date the brand shipped the last device of a model).
They also have 4 months to release security updates and 6 months for functionality updates see ANNEX II for all device categories.
That is actually fairly reasonable. I use a 5 yr old Xiaomi which a has 8Gb (as much as an entry level Surface or MacBook. Fuck AI) an octacore CPU, great camera, ultra fast charge, great battery etc. But I realize most people change phones every 2-3 years regardless of how well their phone works, because of "shiny new thing"
Xiaomi 13T gang? 😁
10T. Banger of a phone.
Actually pretty repairable despite the glued back.
So frigging good value it's insane. Have had like the 2,5,7,8,9(kids) too, all super quality and cheap.
Let me guess, iPhone?
Androids
Huh...I'm guessing banking apps? Those are the only ones that have ever given me problems on old Android devices
I'll literally change banks over that kind of thing now.
yes
Just like the USB-c on the iphone
Even then, Apple maliciously complied. They put shit speed usb-c, (maybe 2.0?) on all but the highest most expensive model.
Tbf they also did that when they were on lightning.
And they are not the only one to do that. I have a flagship android phone one step before the super flagship but It only got usb 2. It is really annoying to transfer media at such a low speed.
I've read a couple stories of companies (planning to) release EU-only models there, but non-EU-compliant ones everywhere else.
The EU ones will become a lot more valuable on second hand markets...
I don't think every corporation is as petty as nintendo