Topics discussed:
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 todayVivint security systems
• Buy it because it has ‘cool features’
• Cellular backup – admittedly pretty usefulA 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
• Antitrust
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