We need to take a page from the EU and force this stuff to happen by law. Expecting for-profit businesses to do anything they're not legally required to is simply naive.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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I live in the EU and I even wish for a bit more aggressiveness regarding laws like this. It's a very slow moving machine, but I feel like it does have the ability to create change.
It 100% does! The next iPhones will have USB-C in them, and that's not because Apple thinks it's time to deprecate Lightning. They love their proprietary USB 2 connection! They were forced to upgrade, and you did that!
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Does anyone know if he really uninstalled GrapheneOS of his device after the disagreement with Daniel Micay (former lead developer of GrapheneOS Project ) or it was just a clickbait?
iPhone batteries are already pretty easy to replace. I’ve done it dozens of times for several different models. It requires two screws, a bit of heat and a suction cup, then a couple more screws and some pull tabs. Usually takes under 30 minutes to do.
I don’t know how you could make it much easier while keeping the waterproofing. Rossman is a highly opinionated guy and I appreciate his advocacy, but he also makes no attempt to be fair to the product designers and is very biased.
If Fairphone can do it, I would think a company valued at like 3 Trillion dollars could do it...