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by criddell 43 days ago
On the page linked to it mentions the two exceptions that exempt iPhone and other flagship phones - long lifespan (80% after 1000 charges) and waterproof (IP67).

The other exemption criteria is for specialized (medical) devices and devices where a removable battery would be unsafe.
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protimewaster 43 days ago
It does, but, in the previous HN discussion, there was a link to the what was reportedly the adopted version of the bill, and those exemptions were gone from the text.
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criddell 43 days ago
Somebody pointed me to the latest version of the act and it does have the 80% after 1000 charges text.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

This is the text:

> the battery endurance in cycles achieves a minimum of 1 000 full charge cycles and after 1 000 full charge cycles the battery has, in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 80 % of the rated capacity;

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protimewaster 43 days ago
Another user pointed out that there are actually two sets of rules. There's a general one that doesn't have the exemptions, and a tablet and phone specific one that does.

It's not clear to me which takes precedence, though, as it sounds like the wording of the phone and tablet-specific rules leaves open the possibility that it can be made more strict by other sets of rules.

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