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.
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