2mo ago

European iPhones are more fun now

www.theverge.com European iPhones are more fun now

Inside you, there are two iPhones.

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Immagine if Chrome wasn't just a rinky dink Safari emulator!
Wow, can't wait to not only have my data harvested by Apple but also Google!
FFS, stop cumming for Chrome and start using Firefox!
- There's no Firefox engine for iOS and Mozilla says it doesn't make financial sense to port it.
  
  Did they say that? Cause it looks like there is at least some work being done on this:
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872
  
  What exactly is there to port anyway?
- By the time the masses move it will be an enshittified fork of chrome.
  
  Edge?

In two years time Apple, and every other smartphone manufacturer on the EU market for that matter, will be forced to make the battery user replaceable and that one will most likely benefit everyone; unless Apple wants to release two versions of every iPhone to comply with EU regulations which they won't.
- Just like with USB-C, which the EU regulated and now the iPad and IPhone have.
  
  the stupidest thing is iPad had USB-C since 2018! and yet on iPhones they latched on to lightning for another 6 years before EU forced them to standardize
  
  no no no, that was just Apple being brave /s
- When they do come to it. I hope its the easily swappable like the ones in Nokia 3310. Otherwise its pointless imo.
  
  AFAIK, the EU defines "user replaceable" as literally that; you open a hatch, pull the battery out and stick a new one in.
- Everyone will benefit, but have to imagine relatively few will buy tools to actually take advantage of it.
- Hopefully they keep selling a phone with no user replaceable battery. Id rather have the weather proofing than a battery i need to swap out one time after owning the phone for over 4 years.
  
  Why only 4 years? The fairphone 5 is water resistant and has a replacable battery. The Samsung Galaxy S5 was fully waterproof and had a replacable battery.
  
  How many times has your phone needed the weather proofing in the last 4 years? Mine is 0, at least twice. On the flip side, I have needed a new battery 2 times.
  
  The two features are not mutually esclusive. I owned an S5 which was waterproof and had replaceable battery more than 10 years ago. It did not seems too hard to do

The more they get regulated, the better their stuff becomes. It's wild that people are on the side of Apple for a lot of this stuff, most prominently probably with third party app stores supposedly "decreasing security".
Sent from my MacBook :)
At least when it comes to consumer rights regulations. I'm still mad about China demanding they remove the option to accept AirDrop from everyone without a time limit on iPhones and Apple then implementing that restriction globally for whatever godforsaken reason.

Begging iPhone to play the catch up game and just have Android's basic features lol
- Except that many Android phones also don't have replaceable batteries anymore.
  
  Hope it doesnt lead to smaller batteries though. It feels like it could since they have to put the battery so it's accessible.
- Oh, here he is. I was worried for a second we’ve lost him.
  
  Never lose cum.
- I switched from android to Iphone and there is nothing I miss, I certainly don't miss how shit the the usb in-ears were on android, all of them haf issues
  
  I feel so lucky to have never bought into the apple mobile ecosystem every time I have to test any of my web apps on iOS safari. What a shit browser (which you have no choice but to use).
  Not to mention having to own several special lightning shit cables to support my test devices. 🤮 They only switched to usb-c because the EU forced them. That detail alone is enough to know what a shit line of products they are cultivating.
  But yeah takes me about one second to miss my android device

If you import iphone from EU does it have these features or is it determined by the region you are using the phone from?

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