Hopefully this doesn’t just manifest itself as simply not selling these devices in the EU. Seems highly unlikely that would be the case, but a possibility I suppose.
The Steam Deck is nearly there with replaceable batteries. You need to have a bit of experience to do it, but Valve doesn’t impede on you or your warranty when performing your own battery replacement.
Yeah allowing it without voiding the warranty is massively useful, but Valve does not make it easy to replace the battery and would likely be unable to sell it in the EU under the current design (ifixit suggests a 2-4 hour process for an experienced person). I think it’s a huge step up from some manufacturers, but a good number of changes would need to be done to make it actually user replaceable. I’m sure they’ll get there though!
Hopefully this doesn’t just manifest itself as simply not selling these devices in the EU. Seems highly unlikely that would be the case, but a possibility I suppose.
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Hopefully this doesn’t just manifest itself as simply not selling these devices in the EU. Seems highly unlikely that would be the case, but a possibility I suppose.
The Steam Deck is nearly there with replaceable batteries. You need to have a bit of experience to do it, but Valve doesn’t impede on you or your warranty when performing your own battery replacement.
Yeah allowing it without voiding the warranty is massively useful, but Valve does not make it easy to replace the battery and would likely be unable to sell it in the EU under the current design (ifixit suggests a 2-4 hour process for an experienced person). I think it’s a huge step up from some manufacturers, but a good number of changes would need to be done to make it actually user replaceable. I’m sure they’ll get there though!
Well that’s why they are been given until '27.
EU is ~450 million people
lots of potential customers, with money.
its almost always worth it.
it’s 25ish % of apples revenue, for example.
I doubt they would do that since the EU is such a big market
The EU market is almost as big as the US market so yeah they’d be giving an awful lot up.