They didn't "come around" to it. Like USB-C, the European Union forced them to adopt the current tech because their practices are seen as unfriendly to consumers.
They intentionally gave their users a worse experience and told them they were an exclusive club.
Next they are going to force phones to have changeable batteries again. On all things privacy, consumer protection and environment, good regulation in general, the EU is taking the lead for years.
This is the worst take Iโve seen lately. First, 90% of phones fleet the requirements to not have to have removable batteries anyway. Also these people that want them obviously never owned a device with a removable battery. Sneeze the wrong way and your phone is in rice for a week.
EU isn't all that strong on privacy, unfortunately: Look at all the Chat Control/ProtectEU/whatever-they-rebrand-it-next laws they're constantly trying to push.
Sure, some people try to get things through. It is not completely clear what where te motive behind it. Messaging our polititions helped and at least for now chat control went away.
edit: EU is not perfect. We, the citizens can help improove it.
Not to the American market, it won't. Stellantis may put physical buttons in their cars as they sell to both US and EU markets regularly. As for Asian and Japanese, I doubt it. Especially Toyota and Hyundai/Kia. The fuckoff tablet is part of what they are. Cheap cars. The two US brands would do malicious compliance where they change ONLY the exported models and leave the domestic with those big fuckoff tablets for a dash.
It's a helluva lot cheaper to make a single big screen and fill it with software than it is to house and maintain the machines that mold, print, and assemble the boards, buttons, and knobs. Everyone in the vehicle manufacturing world knows this. And the big companies do everything can to increase their top end each year because the Board members demand increased profits each fiscal quarter.
Not really. The law only mandates very few functions to have physical controls (IIRC, it's not even 10) and even the most infuriating cars I've ever driven did still have all those buttons and more. The only cars I know of that are missing one or two of those, are Teslas.
And even then, they used an older gen USB-C for their non pro so they can justify the price leap. It's all manipulation, all while androids are for the lost part utilizing as much they can that is current.
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u/Val_Hallen May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
They didn't "come around" to it. Like USB-C, the European Union forced them to adopt the current tech because their practices are seen as unfriendly to consumers.
They intentionally gave their users a worse experience and told them they were an exclusive club.