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If consumers cared to make those tradeoffs, you would see phones with removable batteries with the most market share. You don't because that's not actually wha
by aeternum 3y ago
If consumers cared to make those tradeoffs, you would see phones with removable batteries with the most market share.
You don't because that's not actually what most consumers want, and thus the misguided need to regulate it.
- majewsky 3y agoCounter-hypotheses: - Consumers optimize for what looks nicest in the store, and it's easy for the store to bury the nonreplacability of the battery under a thick layer of tech mumbojumbo. - Most consumers (at least here in Germany) get their phones from their phone plans, so they are limited by what the phone companies offer with their contracts.
- gsich 3y agoThis is the wrong conclusion. Lack of products does not equal "the customer doesn't want it". The customer has no choice.
- chimprich 3y agoThat's such a naive view of how capitalism works. You could turn the argument around: clearly consumers do want this tradeoff, because they have decided to vote in governments to legislate for it to be a requirement. If you think that's an overly simplistic argument, then I invite you to re-evaluate yours.
- scarface_74 3y agoYes because out of all of the issues people vote in the government for, replaceable batteries was the one they cared about the most
- lozenge 3y agoConsumers get to throw e waste in the bin and let somebody else deal with it. Governments need to look out for more interests than just consumers.
- martin8412 3y agoYou think consumers won't just throw the old batteries in the bin and let somebody else deal with it?
- vidarh 3y agoIf they throw just the battery instead of the whole device in the bin that'll still be an improvement.