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Hope so, planned obsolescence is morally wrong for a company making world record profits.

• skinnymuch 7y ago
  Is it not morally wrong for non-Apple or non-Apple/Google companies?
  • 4cao 7y ago
    The regulation is supposed to apply to all manufacturers, and in fact the article is talking about Samsung as well. A more accurate title for this story would be: "All new _phones_ might be forced to have a removable battery"
  • belltaco 7y ago
    Tricky question. As an extreme example, Is it as morally wrong for a homeless mother to steal baby food from a convenience to feed her starving baby vs a rich kid stealing from a store to impress his friends?
    • skinnymuch 7y ago
      That’s a wide difference. The other phone companies aren’t equivalent to a homeless mother wanting to feed her baby. Or any one who is homeless. If you had done something of a middle class vs rich person. Or a homeless vs in debt and barely living paycheck to paycheck person then those would make more sense. And in those cases. The morals are close to the same for both scenarios.
• threeseed 7y ago
  You can replace the battery on your iPhone. It's just not user serviceable. And Apple has for the last few years been focusing on improving the performance and stability of older phones in order to sell services. So your planned obsolescence remark doesn't really apply any more.