It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:
The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.
On this topic, I’m really surprised that Apple made Airtags with batteries that can be changed by the user. I’m even more surprised they used the most common coin cell as the battery
Airtags are grossly anti-competitive and their implementation should be made illegal (not the idea, the apple lock-in should be illegal).
No one is better at skirting anti-trust laws than Apple. Microsoft gets sued for bundling a browser with Windows. Apple REQUIRES safari on iOS and that is fine? lol k
The point is that apple knew not to push vendor lock-in too far with airtags, because they already achieved a monopoly and don’t want to draw attention to this fact. Proprietary batteries would piss people off, and lead to investigation. Good thing it is already happening though. Fuck apple.
https://www.engadget.com/apple-doj-probe-politico-air-tag-221142525.html
Test comment. I was unable to reply to someone else. I’ll delete it.