EU Just Changed Smartphones Forever

41 thoughts on “EU Just Changed Smartphones Forever”

1. Hi everyone, so you may notice a couple of seconds in this video where the audio is a bit funny. I'm actually in South Korea right no, so the recording situation wasn't ideal for re-recording those lines. Apologies in advance!

2. It's about time 😆😆😆

3. The hard to get to SD cards are much the same topic. Simply pushing users towards cloude based backups instead of physical ones. Its pretty simple to connect all yout devices via bluetooth and syncronise them e.g. every night. But who would use the cloud?

4. whats the first song?

5. Its obviously profit. Especially apple brand super obvious.

6. The early 2000's saw a Nokia phone with a simple push button to release the battery. It would come apart when dropped but it was rugged and wasn't a issue to put back.

7. I guess companies may have to incentivise consumers to send in their old batteries. Also I think having non-replaceable batteries were an inevitable consequence of consumer demand and innovation.

   Glad that the EU are making waves though as wasn't it also EU law that meant most smartphones had to have the same charging port?

8. The swollen battery is the ire of Samsung phone users. It shouldn't have to be like this!

9. Returning batteries is the least tricky part I can think of we literally have it already in force for like a decade or more for car batteries it works like this either you buy some fee or yor old not working battery. But then it would actually create more ewaste than remove because it will force you to trash a device you could sell off instead

10. I'd love to see a collab with Louis Rossmann!

    Thanks for the brilliant content, Dagogo!

11. Honestly – it chqnges nothing since you wont be able to buy a battery to replace it like look, even now it is not that hard to replace the battery but most of the makers do not offer replacement parts for sale and 3rd party batteries are so bad that they literally keep rebooting the 0hone when the charge is below 50% and then they have 1/3 the capacity of the original one …

12. Considering that EU is infiltrated by woke marxist i doubt this will be as impactful

13. New iphone will come with no battery 😂buy it seperately 😂

14. Yes. I believe that some changes in industry, are only made, because of profit. It's doesn't matter nothing else.
    That part about the MacBook repair, it's awesome.

15. Excellent. Now I won't have to use a thick, sound-muffling, Faraday pouch/case for my phones anymore as I can simply remove the battery when they're not in use. This effectively prevents any criminal intelligence agency, or rogue "hacker" from monitoring my devices, should they discover & use a "0-day" exploit to compromise them without my knowledge. Of course, prevention is impossible, but mitigation is the next best thing.

16. If you don’t like Apple products for whatever reason don’t buy from them. A giant overburdening bureaucracy like EU should be nowhere near deciding what businesses should or shouldn’t do. There’s a reason why Europe is lagging in tech innovation and manufacturing.

17. Eurss playing their soviet crap again. They will never be gone too early.

18. How could it be on foldables

19. What is the reason ?

20. It was anti consumerism simple as thay

21. Typical EU with such socialist laws. Current closed formfactor drove innovations in battery life and probably less ewaste. I know it is a counter intutive argument but this law will flood the market with low quality and dangerous batteries made by all kinds of third party vendors with questionable ethics driven only by greed. If you think this law will invite some kind of utopia with minimal ewaste, guess again.

22. Also stop apple from making future macbooks unrepairable at private retailers or at home. These companies are becoming too greedy. For what they charge we should be able to do what we want with the product.

23. Just implement a sort of deposition for any device. And even if it's just 10€ it will work good enough.

24. Nice 👍

25. People used to say that the galaxy phones were less premium vs glass backs on iPhones. Then they put a case on it anyway. Removable plastic backs were great, no one cares if you scratched it and it was cheap to replace. Not like a glass back. And unfortunately, too many lay people were swayed by a useless "feature" so they had to switch to glass backs.

    Not sure what a removable electric car battery would mean. It's far too easy for the average person to kill themselves with one

26. I'll be honest, i was tempted to replace my 4 years old Galaxy S10+ when the battery started to drain faster, but in the end I've just replaced the battery, and I'll keep the phone for another 2-3 years with a custom rom up-to-date.

27. From 2027, lol.

28. I hate planned obsolescence. It's disgusting and bad for the environment.

29. EU is the only group standing up to corporations.

30. My next phone will be a FairPhone, they not only allow to replace the battery but all parts

31. A good example of a better future for the environment we live in being catalysed by Law. If left to commerce, it wouldn’t happen until it showed profit potential and in the meantime, Apple are engineering extra profits by dubious defaults; shame on them. I’m a big Apple fan and love their products, but they shouldn’t be doing this.

32. Removable battery was the NORM 20 years ago. It's absolutely insane to me that we reached a point where we celebrate return to normalcy.

33. Well done to the EU almost everything with a battery will now be more expensive.what again of tools.

34. Non replacement of batteries FORCE a consumer into paying hefty amounts to either change battery or buy a new phone and also transfer crucial data that gets left behind in the old phone. Reusable and affordable batteries are the need of the hour and better for our pockets and the environment❤

35. Let's say that Apple is down with this, and they make iPhones with replaceable batteries. iPhone owners will most likely buy batteries from Apple Stores or Apple Certified Stores. Because they don't want "anything bad" happen to their phone.
    Android phones users however, might opt to buy random-brand battery because of they'll be cheaper. Their phones might be so cheap that just by adding another 10-20 dollars for an original-brand battery replacement, will get them a brand new unit.
    Also, let's not forget, different-unit-different-battery thing (Apple would most likely do this). This year model's battery might not be compatible with next year model. So this year's battery will stop being produced once a new model comes out, and this year's model will lose its relevance in this replaceable battery idea. So I think the next step should be compatibility standard law.

    But this is just my two cents. As my wife said : I'm usually wrong

36. Goodbye waterproofing then?

37. I agree with this fr

38. I'm so glad!! I hope manufacturers don't do diff models for US and EU…

39. Yessssssssssss

40. Yes reparing things to make less impact on environment is a required step

41. Other countries too should adopt this , great initiative the results will be massive if seen from a point of 10,20 or 50 years

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