You don't hear about them, but they do exist...
That's your problem then, don't you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_brands_by...
Now, whether all of these are actually manufactured locally or not is another matter, but the EU definitely is regulating its own market. As they have been empowered to do so.
I'm all for it. And I would love to see standardized battery packs for electric vehicles as well because I think that will be a much bigger issue in the longer term.
No need to play the man or be belittling.
Point still stands that the EU smartphone market is so little that any regulation isn't hurting them. Regulation on car repairability definitely would, hence why you stil need to visit the BMW dealer if you want to change the 12-volt battery or activate your heated seats. The EU will not likely do anything about that.
And right to repair is very much a part of EU regulations. Without those regulations you'd be in a far worse situation.
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/automotiv...
If BMW idiocy gets you upset: don't drive BMW. My car is 25 and I can do just about anything I want on it. Your beef is first and foremost with BMW, and I'm fairly sure that if the EU deems this kind of behavior anti competitive it will be smacked down, even if the participants are all EU based.
You seem to want regulation to be perfect, but in light of manufacturer abuses it's a catch-up game.
https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/how-far-will-the-in...
Is a good article on the subject, it also helps to see that there is a fine line between what has to be made available and be subscription free and where manufacturers may have some leeway.
I agree with you that changing out a battery (which is a pretty common affair) should never require a trip to the stealer.
I don't have beef with BMW, that was just an example. "Don't drive a BMW" is the equivalent of "Don't buy an iPhone" if you care about repairability. It shouldn't be like that.
The number of EU companies affected by EU regulations is far larger than the number of companies from abroad. Your example fails because the same amount of regulation that applies to EU car manufacturers also applies to manufacturers from abroad. The EU is in that sense one of the fairest players.
According to your philosophy no amount of regulation on mobile phones would be acceptable because the EU has no big name phone manufacturer any more. But as others have already pointed out this legislation affects far more than just mobile phones so your argument simply fails.
That's exactly the kind of thing they don't do, and for good reasons.
As you can see from the link posted above they do a lot to ensure right to repair, but it isn't perfect. Give it some time.
All the recent Gigaset phones have replaceable Batteries. I use a GS5 and a Rephone with SailfishOs.
Much of the Plasma development for mobile is spear headed by devs in Germany (KDE folk).
Point being, the heritage of Nokia is not quite dead yet.
It has dual SIM capability but if you use that you lose the SD slot.
There is also GerdaOS (instead of KaiOS) and you can run Debian on it. When I get my next phone (which could well be years, this one is now 4 years old and still going strong) I plan on running stock linux on it to see what else you can do with it. I paid about 80 euros for it.