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But the screen cracked 49 years ago. It stopped getting OS updates 48 years ago. And the 5G towers got deprecated 40 years ago.

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And the smashed phones contaminated the groundwater with ni-63

And I got brain cancer 2 years ago.

Nickel 63 decays to stable copper 63 under beta radiation with 66.9 keV energy. Some centimetres are already enough to stop that, with aluminum a millimeter should probably already be enough.

As long as you don't ingest the battery you will be fine.

Good thing we have removable batteries in all the phones now /s

It is coming (again) thanks to one of the largest single market on the planet making replacable batteries in portable electronics a requirement by 2027 (in 3 years time) [0].

I find it highly unlikely that there will be double production of devices for the EU market on one hand and the rest of the world on the other (and the biggest producers are not going to be pulling out of the market for obvious reasons).

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...

If only. I suspect they will use the "waterproof" exception as an excuse to continue as before.

I hope so. I've loved that ever since the first summer with a waterproof phone. Where I live, the summer rains can drench you in a minute,

You're ignoring the third possibility which is that, given three years to do so, the lobbyists capture the regulators like they always do.

Possible. But given that they couldn't do that with the cash cow that is the ios app store[0] I won't hold my breath for it to happen with batteries.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-i...

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