Comments by "Logan S" (@logans3365) on "EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!" video.

  1. Congrats to the EU for doing their best to put an end to planned obsolescence.
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  2. There are a lot more practices that need to be banned, but at least there may be one less soon.
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  3. Removable batteries don’t make phones bigger, your not adding a bigger battery, and your not adding components, so that doesn’t make any sense. Removable batteries are necessary so that when your battery dies, you only have to buy a new battery instead of an entire new phone. Most people put cases on their phone anyway so who cares about “aesthetics”, is it really worth the cost of all the added waste?
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  4. If that does happen then someone who actually cares about providing a quality phone will just capture the market.
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  5. Why run away from our homes problems, instead of fighting to fix them?
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  6. That’s precisely why they glue the batteries now, they just want to sell you a new phone every year. Planned obsolescence is a crime against humanity in my opinion.
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  7. Finally someone else who understands our situation
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  8. It’s difficult to standardize form as there are money good reasons to have a unique battery for this specific device, but there are a lot of made up ones that only exist to generate profit as well. It’s difficult to write a law that gets rid of one but not the other.
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  9. It’s also about planned obsolescence that way you have to buy an entirely new phone instead of just a battery
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  10. How is abolishing planned obsolescence tactics corporations use to exploit you for more money at the expense of the planet a stupid ruling?
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  11. People in America don’t understand what freedom is
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  12. More like those features were forced upon the masses as phone manufacturers stopped making removable batteries in favor of high profits.
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  13. Maybe because the industry is monopolized, and the fact that under capitalism you can’t always do what is right because you have to make profit to support you and your family.
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  14. How so? The phones with removable batteries I had when I was a kid where actually thinner than the one I have now. Plus the batteries inside the phone haven’t gotten thicker So where is all this thickness coming from?
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  15.  @ragnnohab  if this is a joke then it’s gone over my head lol
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  16. Non removable batteries create more waste, you have to buy an entire new phone, when you could have just replaced and recycled your old battery. The not including changes every time you buy a phone was actually a good idea, only instead of reducing the price to reflect that you were no longer getting a charger, they just kept the excess as profit. They didn’t do it for the environment.
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  17. Planned obsolescence is a crime against humanity and should be banned, this law is at least a step in the right direction.
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  18. Right? Also screws and gaskets are a thing, which could provide even better durability and water resistance, all while looking pretty cool in my opinion. But it’s all about planned obsolescence to increase corporate profits, even though it’s incredibly wasteful and killing our only planet.
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  19. Time to show those companies who really has the power, too bad most of our power actively supports these companies screwing us over.
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  20. The free market, free to exploit people at the expense of our planet.
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  21.  @soulreaper9453  not for all phones, but for most it essentially means a dead phone, not everyone can afford to pay someone to install the battery, plus even a professional can’t get the phone back to factory seal after breaking it the seal for the first time. As for the flexible batteries, they would have to ship in packaging anyway, so you could just keep them in a shell when they are not in your phone. The biggest problem the EU is trying to solve is companies making there devices unrepairable to common people, and forcing you to use there services when you could have done it yourself if it was designed better.
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  22.  @deathbetold6469  In a proper society the government is the people, not an enemy faction, in America the government is controlled by corporations, that’s why the corporation Jhon deer is aloud to screw over farmers with their anti repair tactics. Corporations are regulating themselves by lobbying our government and its driving America into the ground. I would choose an iPhone with a replaceable battery, but it doesn’t exist, people don’t get to choose what corporations make, corporations get to choose what people buy. And that should change.
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  23. Probably, we will just have to ban those practices as well. But ideally people will see that capitalism forces the worst solutions to come into the light as they are the most profitable, and decide we need to change.
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  24. Can’t you just use USBC port?
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  25. All planned obsolescence practices need to be labeled a crime against humanity as soon as possible.
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  26. I feel like there are is a wide price range of wireless headphones out there, to the point where we don’t need wired ones anymore. Plus can’t USB C be used as a headphone jack?
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  27. Brainwashed
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  28. Thanks to decades of corporate brainwashing, people don’t understand the impact that their overconsumption actually has, or in fact even know that they over consume.
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  29. Capitalisms “FREE” market is a joke, it may start off that way but inevitably the power will consolidate and you are left with a slave market.
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  30. Then we will just have to make that practice illegal as well. At the end of the day it’s capitalism and the need for infinite growth that creates these problems, but these laws make decent bandaids.
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  31. Now imagine having replaceable batteries that last all day, you could have a couple extra and never have to worry about charging your phone while on trips.
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  32. It’s the business model for any capitalist business because it’s way more profitable, even if it hurts the consumer and the planet.
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  33. Your a genius 🤣
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  34. The US military needs too put down our corporations as punishment for their crimes against humanity. Using planned obsolescence to force people to buy phones more often, for profit, at the expense of our planets resources, is not freedom, it’s slavery.
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  35. People should be able to dictate how businesses operate, and in theory an un corrupted government reflects the will of the people. We can’t keep letting corporations burn through our resources, and literally set the planet on fire.
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  36. Capitalism always makes things as wasteful as possible in the pursuit of profits
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  37. No phone manufacturer would go for that because they like the planned obsolescence that having non removable batteries provides so that people have to buy phones more often. I’m seen plenty of older phones that have removable batteries and are also slim. Not to mention people add cases anyway, if you just made the phone more durable with screws in the first place then people wouldn’t have to do that.
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  38. I like the idea of a phone having intergraded fall protection, then we wouldn’t have billions of crappy cases polluting the planet. Although you would likely lose customization. I’m ok with that though
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  39. The people praising the non removable batteries are the people who profit off of smart phone sales
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  40. If they do that I believe many will fully boycott apple in the US, having seen them go out of their way just to keep a worse product in the US
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  41. If you actually watched the video you would see his examples of waterproof phones that have removable batteries.
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  42. He has examples of waterproof phones with removable batteries in the video No the phone would not be much bulkier if any, there are plenty of slim phones with removable batteries Just don’t buy cheap scam batteries, and if they are selling batteries for the same price as replacing them then they are in the wrong, not the consumer. And if a thief removes the battery then now they have a phone that does nothing, eventually they would have to turn it on and then would be tracked.
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  43. No, it will not increase phone size, idk why everyone thinks it would, but the battery won’t get bigger, and we are not adding any components, so not increased size.
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  44. I hadn’t even thought about that but it’s a HUGE plus. You could easily increase battery life as much as you want by buying more batteries.
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  45. I like my Bluetooth headphones, but I do think they should be repairable as well. Also can’t you use USB C for headphones?
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  46.  @bc454irocz89  I was thinking the newer headphones that just come with usb c instead of headphone jack. Idk about sound quality differences though
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  47. Have you heard of phone cases? Most people use them.
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  48. What is someone going to do with a phone that if they put the battery in they will be tracked? Why would anyone steal phones?
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  49. Not to mention that they could have tiny reserve batteries that keep the function going.
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  50. They will until we finally do something about them, capitalism is killing this planet and it’s time for change, profit can not be the only incentive on this world.
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  51. How so? Now if your battery dies you can just buy a new battery, instead of an entire new phone. It’s definitely a step forward, but I’m curious to hear your reasoning.
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  52.  @Wesley_H  our waste system is definitely a problem that needs to be addressed. You may be surprised to learn that not many things actually get recycled, even when you send them to the appropriate place. So when you scrap an entire phone just because it needs a new battery, you are creating much more waste then if you were able to just pop in a new battery, and drop the old one off at your local battery recyclers. Batteries are one of the few things that actually get recycled at a decent rate, so if you can easily remove them and get them to battery recyclers without have to break open a phone and cut through a bunch of glue then they will likely be recycled more. Provided we actually make recycling convenient and doable that is
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  53. One of many, they also mandated USB C as a standard charging port to prevent apple from forcing you to buy special lighting cables.
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  54. People are brainwashed by the very corporations that exploit them. Thanks for spreading the word to help eliminate all the false information that has been put out
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  55. But you still have to plug in your phone and wait for it to charge, if you were in an emergency it would be much faster to quickly swap batteries.
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  56. Because of Ewaste, we produce WAY more phones then this planet needs, all for the sake of profiting. Phones could easily be upgradable just like PCs, that way you only buy what you need, instead of an entirely new phone. New cases and standards would evolve over the years, so you would likely have to buy an all new rig every decade or so, but there would still be greatly reduced waste, and people would save tons of money.
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  57. But, but, but then you won’t have to buy a new phone and pay extra to get increased storage. how will the phone companies exploit you for profit?
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  58. You don’t need to “upgrade” your phone nearly as often as they want you to believe. they actually purposely don’t improve them that much each year that way they can keep milking phones for profit without reaching the limit of the techs advancement. Also why would they be thicker? My old removable battery phones are thinner than the new ones, plus batteries haven’t gotten thicker. So where is the thickness coming from?
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  59. If you take the back off of old phones you will see it is just as compact, there is just no glue preventing you from taking the battery out. Removable batteries won’t increase phone size, but it will allow you to keep your phone for much longer, reducing Ewaste by banning one form of planned obsolescence. Plus you can have 2 batteries and swap them out when your phone dies, instead of having to take time to charge it.
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  60. Basically your whole argument is don’t poke the corporations holding us hostage or they might retaliate. It’s this whole dynamic that needs to be done away with ok the first place. Letting wealthy individuals control your life instead of elected officials was a dumb idea to begin with.
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  61. Wireless charging is kinda cool, but SUPER slow, and it decays batteries faster by producing more heat.
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  62. Iv replaced apple phone batteries before, and I can tell you that the glue and seal don’t go back on to factory standards, they just can’t be made that well without machines, even by professionals. Having to fully rely on a company to keep your phone in working order is ridiculous, competent people should be able to repair their own devices, without paying extra fees. Also why would removable batteries make the phone bulky? The battery didn’t get bigger, and we didn’t add any components. The only reason batteries are not removable now is so that they can sell you an entire phone instead of a new battery, or at the very least you will have to over pay them to replace it for you.
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  63. Fairly high if we let them get away with it
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  64. It would be way more durable as well
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  65. No, he gave examples of water proof phones that have removable batteries in the video, did you watch it?
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  66. A clean well built product? That’s not profitable so capitalism says no can do.
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  67. You like looking at it until the glass back shatters? Lol There could be a small reserve battery to prevent thieves from disabling tracking, but scrapping phones doesn’t make money anyway so a phone without a battery is worthless. Apple care offers super cheap repairs because there are way more people who subsidize your repair buy purchasing apple care and never using it, not an efficient way of doing things, super profitable for apple though. As for cheap batteries all I can say is do your research, and don’t fall for scams. People don’t buy cheap phones so there is not reason you shouldn’t be able to identify the good batteries.
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  68. For wireless charging, but wireless charging has tons of drawbacks so idk why it is standard other than it makes them more money when you have to fix your broken back glass, and buy wireless chargers.
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  69. Absolutely, they will make up anything to maintain their profits and keep from providing a better product.
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  70. So the reasons it is bad is because corporations would cause even more problems, as we try and fix the ones they already caused? Sounds like no matter how you slice it, greedy corporations are the problem, and we should be banning them instead.
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  71. A phone without a battery is worthless, sure they could remove it for a while, but eventually they would have to put it back in. Why would anyone steal a phone they wouldn’t be able to use? I’m honestly not sure why people steal phones now anyway when they are locked and trackable.
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  72. Just get a dive computer Why would everyone need to have a phone rated to go diving with?
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  73.  @austrogalant  well you said diving not snorkeling, and you said 25 meters, that’s definitely not snorkeling. We have cameras specifically designed for such activities, there is no reason to make everyone’s phones able to do that when most won’t use that feature. Everyone needs to replace the battery though.
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  74. America also has the cookie pop ups, most websites have the trackers and I’m able to disable them while keeping the website operational.
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  75. Why would someone steal a phone if they could never put a battery in it without being tracked? Also why would someone steal a phone anyway when they are locked and trackable?
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  76. Maybe don’t make phones out of glass? It’s necessary for the screen, but wireless charging is ridiculous, it’s slow, decays your battery faster, and requires your phone to be less durable.
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  77. They will try, it’s up to the people to keep holding them accountable for there profiteering BS.
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  78. The batteries in our current phones are already save to handle, Iv touched many of them. Plus people put cases on their phones anyway, if you just made a phone with an integrated case then there would be plenty of room for those fasteners, plus the phone would be far more durable. But that idea doesn’t make as much profit so I guess it can’t happen.
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  79. It’s not about what you want, it’s about ending planned obsolescence, and reducing Ewaste, if you upgrade your phone before the battery needs replaced then you are buying too many phones. Plus even if a thief takes the battery out then they will just have a phone that doesn’t work, worthless, eventually they would have to put it back in and be tracked.
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  80. Yah but removing chargers made apple lots of money, removable batteries won’t, so can’t happen lol Although it will and should, F apple and corporate profits
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