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I Think Apple Lied - WAN Show July 14, 2023

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The EU and Phones

The EU wants phones to have replaceable batteries. Do you think this will result in replaceable batteries outside of the EU? Yes or no? I could see them trying to play hardball here. Apple doesn't like to be pushed around. But if the EU really does say, yeah, it has to be user serviceable, easily replaceable. They want to create a circular economy for battery materials like very earth metals. It's 150 million customers. If I'm Apple, I'm kind of sitting here going, you guys can't dictate how we build our products. I simply won't allow it.

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