Mandatory labels on smartphones and tablets in the EU now let consumers compare their battery life, durability, and repairability ratings before purchase.
It is not really that simple, under the surface the hardware is proprietary and different. It would be impossible to verify how this is being manipulated in testing unless the full hardware documentation was made available. That would reveal all the stollen IP and illegal nonsense happening on all mobile devices and bankrupt these criminal organizations making hardware. Plus we would fully own what we pay for and be able to support it indefinitely in the mainline Linux kernel, taking away the power to steal from everyone in the world by manipulative proprietary orphan kernels.
If anyone in the EU had sense, they would require all hardware sold to be publicly transparent and fully documented. That is the only way to save democracy in the biggest of pictures. There is no room for bowdlerization of information in democracy albeit from a source bottleneck, or middle person filtering or holding the potential to filter. Trust is for ideologues and fools. Citizens are required to be skeptical and fully informed for democracy to work. No one has a right to mask and obfuscate communication and the flow of information but that is what proprietary hardware creates. The level of exploitation is irrelevant to the nominalized potential.
It is not really that simple, under the surface the hardware is proprietary and different. It would be impossible to verify how this is being manipulated in testing unless the full hardware documentation was made available. That would reveal all the stollen IP and illegal nonsense happening on all mobile devices and bankrupt these criminal organizations making hardware. Plus we would fully own what we pay for and be able to support it indefinitely in the mainline Linux kernel, taking away the power to steal from everyone in the world by manipulative proprietary orphan kernels.
If anyone in the EU had sense, they would require all hardware sold to be publicly transparent and fully documented. That is the only way to save democracy in the biggest of pictures. There is no room for bowdlerization of information in democracy albeit from a source bottleneck, or middle person filtering or holding the potential to filter. Trust is for ideologues and fools. Citizens are required to be skeptical and fully informed for democracy to work. No one has a right to mask and obfuscate communication and the flow of information but that is what proprietary hardware creates. The level of exploitation is irrelevant to the nominalized potential.