I think this is probably the first and only good thing the EU has done in something like 5 years - since GDPR (which unfortunately has resulted in me being unable to access many local American sites because they don't want to comply with GDPR, so I always get a message saying "we value our European visitors").
I do recall that there were many liquid-proof devices that had replacable batteries back in the day. It seems obvious to me that these money-grubbing corporations just want you to pay through the nose for replacement of the batteries. Same reason they have eliminated the microSD slots. Pay us 300 euros for 512 GB extra instead of 40 euros for a microSD card, damnit!
I think this is probably the first and only good thing the EU has done in something like 5 years - since GDPR (which unfortunately has resulted in me being unable to access many local American sites because they don't want to comply with GDPR, so I always get a message saying "we value our European visitors").
I do recall that there were many liquid-proof devices that had replacable batteries back in the day. It seems obvious to me that these money-grubbing corporations just want you to pay through the nose for replacement of the batteries. Same reason they have eliminated the microSD slots. Pay us 300 euros for 512 GB extra instead of 40 euros for a microSD card, damnit!
It's the EU. There's always something up. I don't see what it is right now, but I bet we'll find out in time.