EU: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
• All phones, including iPhones, released in the EU must have a battery the user can easily replace with no tools or expertise
• Phones will also need to become more recyclable as well as produced with a higher percentage of recycled materials
• This comes after several other “consumer friendly” laws, such as requiring Apple to replace lightning with USB C on future iPhones and warning them against limiting speeds of “uncertified” cables like they do today
• Buy it because it has ‘cool features’
• Cellular backup – admittedly pretty useful
A lawsuit claims Google has been ‘secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans’ to train its AI
• If the product is free, you are the product
• This likely isn’t just Google
• This is also why many companies, such as Reddit and Twitter, claim to be charging for their API usage now instead of offering it for free
Links mentioned in this episode:
https://jonahmay.net/https://cyberfortress.com/https://differentdev.com/ https://differentdev.com/blog/