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EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force (www.france24.com)

submitted 6 days ago by minyaen@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

I suspect this was only an argument to make them hard to repair, as always

They don’t mind the benefit, for sure. But as somebody who worked in manufacturing support jobs up until a couple years ago, I’m 90% confident it’s just faster and cheaper to glue them. Probably easier to automate too. Again it just comes down to money.

Just thinking of the scale of R&D for something like a flagship phone, there are a LOT of person-hours dedicated to manufacturability.