Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...
I definitely agree 100% with the spirit of your comment. In my experience servicing business laptops like Dell latitudes or precisions etc, it hasn’t been very hard to get to the battery it’s usually just a couple of screws to remove the bottom panel and maybe another fastening screw that anchors in the battery and then you just swap it out. In general, again this is just in my experience, One of the things that you’re paying for when you get a business level device whether it’s a laptop or a desktop computer is the ability to service it more easily and replace broken parts because it’s often more efficient to do it in house than to have the manufacturer do it even if you paid for the service.
The flip side of this though is that a lot of people are terrified of opening up a laptop and that’s totally understandable because there’s a lot of little delicate parts that you could possibly break. I would be totally unsurprised if this was a mindset that was specifically nurtured and engendered by the industry itself because it’s much better for them if you just buy a whole new laptop then a cheap battery especially if it’s from a third party seller.
This makes me wonder what it would take to make people in general feel encouraged and emboldened to take apart and repair the devices that they own. I also wonder if inflation is just the thing to do it.
I definitely agree 100% with the spirit of your comment. In my experience servicing business laptops like Dell latitudes or precisions etc, it hasn’t been very hard to get to the battery it’s usually just a couple of screws to remove the bottom panel and maybe another fastening screw that anchors in the battery and then you just swap it out. In general, again this is just in my experience, One of the things that you’re paying for when you get a business level device whether it’s a laptop or a desktop computer is the ability to service it more easily and replace broken parts because it’s often more efficient to do it in house than to have the manufacturer do it even if you paid for the service.
The flip side of this though is that a lot of people are terrified of opening up a laptop and that’s totally understandable because there’s a lot of little delicate parts that you could possibly break. I would be totally unsurprised if this was a mindset that was specifically nurtured and engendered by the industry itself because it’s much better for them if you just buy a whole new laptop then a cheap battery especially if it’s from a third party seller.
This makes me wonder what it would take to make people in general feel encouraged and emboldened to take apart and repair the devices that they own. I also wonder if inflation is just the thing to do it.