EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
I agree with that and welcome it but still I think they should make distinction between device types! For example smartphones are often very tiny, technology advances a not and we often also want waterproofness to some degree. It is a bit sensible that there may be a glue desired and it is not that problematic.<p>But the current state of macbook and mac repairability is pretty bad! Macbook is not a 2-year smartphone consumable, yet it is quite common that LCD breaks or LCD flex breaks from just daily use, or keyboard wears out, battery used to be glued. And only apple can fix a broken display flex and they do that but replacing the whole assembly which costs half of the device cost. And that is an example of the issue which this bill should fix and which we need! This probably applies for other bugger devices with planned longer-term use.<p>Without any distinction, it may not work very well. We don't really need ALL smartphones to have easily replaceable batteries and be bulky, non-waterproof, heavy, etc.