yet they’re still priced and treated culturally like luxury toys

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    If we could fight over legislations to force swappable batteries and operating systems, most people would just buy used. Like how now laptops, desktops, Raspberry Pi’s you can buy used cheap, slap a light fresh OS and go.

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      1 year ago

      We’ll at least get swappable batteries in the EU from 2027 on. From then on it will be illegal to sell phones without swappable batteries.