““A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools””
Additionally, the manufacturer should make batteries available for SEVEN years after release.
A step in the right direction, IMO. Now mandate software support for that duration.
I wonder if this will finally take us back to the days of standardised battery sizes, instead of the random only-works-on-one-phone ones we get currently. I highly doubt manufacturers would want to invest too much for a single phone model for that long.
Europe has already standardized charging port to USB-C so standardization of batteries would be the most logical next step.