Per the article, there must be replacement batteries available for at least five years after the end of the product being available on the market. I don’t think it would make much sense to keep tonnes of batteries in storage for so long. Presumably battery manufacturing would therefore have to continue over time. Maybe device manufacturers will try to share battery designs across device models so they don’t need so many manufacturing lines?
Would be great if it means that I could swap out my device’s battery after a few years and the new battery takes advantage of the improvements over that time.
I don’t think it would make much sense to keep tonnes of batteries in storage for so long.
What if you, the phone manufacturer, want to sell more phones? I assume they only need to store enough batteries to be able to meet the actual demand, which won’t be high if the replacement batteries are crap or if it’s prohibitively hard to change the batteries as an end user, or if most of the phones break before the battery.
Per the article, there must be replacement batteries available for at least five years after the end of the product being available on the market. I don’t think it would make much sense to keep tonnes of batteries in storage for so long. Presumably battery manufacturing would therefore have to continue over time. Maybe device manufacturers will try to share battery designs across device models so they don’t need so many manufacturing lines?
Would be great if it means that I could swap out my device’s battery after a few years and the new battery takes advantage of the improvements over that time.
What if you, the phone manufacturer, want to sell more phones? I assume they only need to store enough batteries to be able to meet the actual demand, which won’t be high if the replacement batteries are crap or if it’s prohibitively hard to change the batteries as an end user, or if most of the phones break before the battery.