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Next thing you know after this passes they’ll be regulating the size and interface to the the battery such that a standard sized battery must be supported on al
by ironick09 4y ago
Next thing you know after this passes they’ll be regulating the size and interface to the the battery such that a standard sized battery must be supported on all mobile phones or else you’ll be fined 30% of global profits.
- gtvwill 4y agoThis would be awesome. Proprietary batteries are truly terrible design.
- charcircuit 4y agoProprietary batteries are useful for getting the best trade off of capacity, weight, cost, and form factor for a product. Standardized batteries will result in products that are worse in 1 or more of those categories.
- gtvwill 4y agoThe benefit standardized batteries have over those trade offs just by increasing longevity of items and in turn reducing waste I will argue day in day out make it worth it. Those metrics are worth zip in the grand scheme of things given what we are ruining in order to achieve them. Stop breaking the world just so you can have trinkets.
- charcircuit 4y agoConsumers prioritize capacity, weight, and cost over longevity. We are simply making the best devices we can for consumers. Phones make up a tiny percent of the waste humans produce. There are much more high impact areas that should be focused on if you want to reduce the waste output of humanity. The bias against waste of phones in due to their cost instead of the amount of waste it is.
- dns_snek 4y agoThis thread has hyper-focused on smartphones, but the proposed legislation would cover all consumer appliances, not just phones.