You’re not going to be able to do that lol. The only thing that’s changing is that you will only require tools that the average person wanting to do the job will already have in order to take your phone apart. No proprietary screws etc. The EU law basically changed nothing of any value.
It will require design changes, but there are already plenty of options to make it happen.
Nah, there’s basically no design changes needed. Pretty much everyone already complies with the new EU laws. People seem to think the new laws mean you’ll just be unclipping the back of your phone and chucking a new battery in like in the nokia days lol. All it means is that you won’t need proprietary tools to open your phone. You’ll still need to disassemble the phone as usual. Basically nothing changes for the big OEMs already. It’s not going to make replacing your battery on your own any easier.
I honestly can’t believe what I’m seeing on Lemmy RE: Sync. Lemmy itself doesn’t have ads, neither do the iOS apps that I’ve been using - Memmy (which is AMAZING) and Liftoff, yet here comes Sync injecting ads in and having absurd subscriptions or one time fees…and I’m seeing comments about people “crying because I’m so happy” and “can’t stop smiling” lol.
Seems the reddit app devs who made their millions off the back of reddits free content are now coming here and just going straight to reddit 2.0 money making mode lol. They’re now charging people to use their app that is using a free API. These are the same devs that chose to close their reddit apps completely instead of offering a subscription model that would pay for the api access. Make it make sense.
Holy shit y’all. Developers need to eat too. It’s totally fine to charge for an app or serve ads.
You might be forgetting that these same developers refused to simply put in a subscription to their reddit apps to continue them, instead closing their apps and telling everyone to move to lemmy because that’s where their app will be…and now adding huge subscription fees and one-off fees on a platform that doesn’t charge them to use their API lol.
Maybe I’m just cynical but this really seems like the dollar signs lit up in the reddit app devs eyes the second reddits API changes got announced.
Remember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?
Yeah. They did exactly that...
[Discussion] Which phones are you excited for in 2024?
Basically trying to see if I should wait for any exciting phone or get a Xiaomi 13T right now
Android may soon tell you when it's time to replace your phone's battery (www.androidauthority.com)
Sync for Lemmy is now available for everyone (play.google.com)