EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!

https://lemmy.world/post/266757

EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! - Lemmy.world

What're the odds this will carry over to the US out of convenience? I'd love for the batteries in phones to become more repairable over here, and I hope that companies would simply make all phones repairable from here on out to make things easier on themselves, but do you think they would, from now on, make two separate iPhones that have repairable batteries (EU) and non-repairable batteries (US & everywhere else)?
I can't imagine Apple is going to have a totally different battery and case design for the EU. But if they go down that path... you could just buy the EU model.
You'd probably be missing a few network bands for US carriers, though.