- Human impact on the environment, which e-waste is a big part of, is causing damage to wildlife, and serious climate change.
- There's huge awareness of and push back against bad hardware practices (often around non-replacable batteries) so they must have at least considered this.
The EU just mandated cell phones must have user replaceable batteries by 2027: https://www.cereport.eu/news/european-union/91054
So making this single use is kinda flying into the wind in that regard.
The EU just backtracked on user replaceable batteries for wearables.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/14/apple-watch-meta-...
I was thinking about the combination of:
- Human impact on the environment, which e-waste is a big part of, is causing damage to wildlife, and serious climate change.
- There's huge awareness of and push back against bad hardware practices (often around non-replacable batteries) so they must have at least considered this.
Western Europe is experiencing a record setting deadly heatwave, for one interpretation.