beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoSmartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirementsrepair.euexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down10file-text
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1386161/smartphone-makers-don-t-bother-to-comply-with-eu-repairability-requirements
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down50·edit-212 hours agoProbably because 90% of growth is occurring outside the EU. Edit. It’s a fucking EU stated fact muppets https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/smes/growing-and-scaling-sme/improving-smes-access-marktets/sme-internationalisation-beyond-eu_en
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoGrowth isn’t the only important metric here.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·12 hours agoIt is to smartphone manufacturers
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoIt’s not. Year on year sales can remain flat but they are still important to turnover.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoBecause flat < growth It’s not that deep
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 minutes agoObviously but that doesn’t mean that the flat number of year on year sales don’t matter. It’s a very important metric
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 minutes agoIt means you are losing market share
minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·16 hours agoDo you think Apple and Samsung would stop selling 60% of the European phones? https://appleworld.today/2026/08/apple-now-has-34-of-europes-smartphone-market/ Also you’re the kind of useful idiot that we see all over the internet. Stop.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·12 hours agoThey obviously aren’t, so what’s your point? If you resort to name calling, you’re a fucking idiot.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-212 hours agoThat’s a stat from the EU lol And your portmanteau doesn’t work.
minus-squareesc@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoSo? These companies would just throw out 10% of the ‘growth’?
minus-squareaim4harmony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoThe EU could flip the scrip and get back to Nokia phones and real interactions. That way the data flow abroad would be minimised significantly.
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·16 hours agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/flip-the-script
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·12 hours agoJust like North Korea?
Probably because 90% of growth is occurring outside the EU.
Edit. It’s a fucking EU stated fact muppets
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/smes/growing-and-scaling-sme/improving-smes-access-marktets/sme-internationalisation-beyond-eu_en
Growth isn’t the only important metric here.
It is to smartphone manufacturers
It’s not. Year on year sales can remain flat but they are still important to turnover.
Lol
Why ?
Because flat < growth
It’s not that deep
Obviously but that doesn’t mean that the flat number of year on year sales don’t matter. It’s a very important metric
It means you are losing market share
Do you think Apple and Samsung would stop selling 60% of the European phones? https://appleworld.today/2026/08/apple-now-has-34-of-europes-smartphone-market/
Also you’re the kind of useful idiot that we see all over the internet. Stop.
They obviously aren’t, so what’s your point?
If you resort to name calling, you’re a fucking idiot.
Average UKdiot
That’s a stat from the EU lol
And your portmanteau doesn’t work.
So? These companies would just throw out 10% of the ‘growth’?
The EU could flip the scrip and get back to Nokia phones and real interactions. That way the data flow abroad would be minimised significantly.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/flip-the-script
Just like North Korea?