Re: EI mew ;abeling regulations June 20th 2025

Will these regulations apply in the UK?

 As you have had explained to you at least twice before, they will become
a de facto standard, because it won't be worth the cost to the
manufacturers to produce a substantially different model for every
different market; on the contrary they will try and keep as much as
possible of every product the same world-wide.

 Evidently it is not quite as simple as that. In another thread it is
explained that Apple have withdrawn phones with lightning connectors
from the EU market and continue to sell them in the UK.

 I haven't seen that other thread, but they may well be offloading old stock pending newer models.  Eventually market forces can be expected to prevail.

 Apple have removed the iphone 14 and SE from sale in the EU and Northern
Ireland due to the regulations coming into effect on 30th December.  Both models are still available in the rest of the UK.

While Android phones typically *double* the EU minimum standards... Bear in mind that Apple is cognizant that their use of cheap batteries in
the iPhone means they'll have to label those same phones as very clearly
NOT meeting the upcoming 2025 EU battery charge-cycle lifetime standards.
Apple has always cheaped out on batteries and hardware (such as RAM).
Now Apple's addiction to cheap components returns to bite them back.
Not only has Apple always been cheap on batteries, but on RAM also.
Which means only the latest iPhones can run the memory intensive AI apps.
In other words, even the very few iPhones that "can" be sold in the EU
after June of this year still *barely* squeak by due to cheap components.
It's just more evidence of the obvious maxim: *Apple hates you*