• wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The EU has been good at holding phone manufacturers to account on this kind of thing, glad it’s gone through. I’ve had at least two phones die on me through the battery breaking, it shouldn’t be cheaper to just buy a new phone than get the battery replaced. So much waste.

    Hoping us UK folk will see the benefit of this as I imagine it’s less effort to just bring the change about across the board than to be specific about geography.

    • Syldon@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      It will come into effect in the UK also. Like it or lump it, the UK is forced to follow the EU market design. As for legislation being applied in favour of the public interest, I would not count on that until we remove the current government. At most they have 18 months left before an election has to be held.