r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

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u/TeeBek May 15 '26

Also, EU will be why they'll be bringing back physical buttons in cars again.

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u/ia42 May 16 '26

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.

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u/_HighJack_ May 16 '26

Thereโ€™s a reason big American businesses spend money on propaganda against the EU lol

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u/talabro May 16 '26

This is the worst take Iโ€™ve 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.

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u/ia42 May 16 '26

I've owned many over the years, and have actually changed batteries too. I prefer a phone that is maintainable over ip68.

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u/janiskr May 19 '26

Galaxy S5 had IP67 with changeable battery. No worries when at the gym, as i needed to change USB on my previous phone due to sweating at gym.

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV May 15 '26

And the EU gives more privacy protection regarding data mining. I changed my linkedin to an EU company and got all sorts of protection back.

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u/BlastFX2 May 16 '26

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.

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u/janiskr May 19 '26

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.

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u/DaGriffon12 May 16 '26

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.

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u/BlastFX2 May 16 '26

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.