beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoSmartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirementsrepair.euexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down13file-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-up6arrow-down55·edit-27 days 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-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·7 days 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-down11·7 days agoThey obviously aren’t, so what’s your point? If you resort to name calling, you’re a fucking idiot.
minus-squarekuiskaaja@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days ago If you resort to name calling, you’re a fucking idiot. lol
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·7 days agoGrowth isn’t the only important metric here.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·7 days agoIt is to smartphone manufacturers
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoIt’s not. Year on year sales can remain flat but they are still important to turnover.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoBecause flat < growth It’s not that deep
minus-squarekoka_noodles@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days 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-up1·6 days agoIt means you are losing market share
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·edit-27 days agoThat’s a stat from the EU lol And your portmanteau doesn’t work.
minus-squareesc@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoSo? These companies would just throw out 10% of the ‘growth’?
minus-squareaim4harmony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days 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-down1·7 days agohttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/flip-the-script
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
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.
lol
;)
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
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?