President Obama Signs E-Label Act, Companies No Longer Required to Etch FCC Labels on Devices

[Kissaragi]

Glad all the important issues are being dealt with

 

[Alphabetize]

I don't care about the politics behind this, I will just be happy to see a more simplified devices.

 

[Cayden]

Does this really benefit users at all? There will be no savings passed onto us

 

[rsocal]

I'm confused by your thinking that the American public keeps changing its mind. Most elections are extremely close, the widest margin is typically a couple of percent...and no election represents all of the voters. What you end up with is people in the middle choosing a candidate they prefer and people on the left or right showing stronger support in some elections (turning out to vote). Which leads me to this - if you are following any PARTY you are following the herd. If you want to make things right, you vote for the better candidate...not the better party. You're just taking a broken system and playing a broken game with it by voting for some alternative party. In the end, you can tell which candidates even have a shot at running the country, voting for some odd ball party candidate is probably going to detract a vote from a candidate you may actually have preferred.[COLOR="#808080
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Jeez, no I haven't seen it. To me that's like burning a flag...hypocrites.

I still believe this guy was joking. My sister is a school teacher, she tells me that whenever anything goes wrong, the kids in her school exclaim "Thanks, Obama". The right is truly becoming a joke.[COLOR="#808080"]

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$15 million at one penny per device? That would be 1.5 BILLION iPhones in the first wave. Somehow, I don't think that's possible.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/22/apple-iphone-6-plus-sales-first-weekend

I get your math now, you're correct! And yes, I belive that they would save that much money if a penny per device.

 

[gnasher729]

.50 cent savings here we come! lol

Savings will be minimal. There are no parts involved that would need to be paid. All the work that can be saved is putting each iPhone into a machine that will do the etching fully automatically, and that machine will remain unused - but it has already been paid for, so there is almost no saving.

 

[uwdude]

I think people could be forgetting here that this may have been passed to pave the way for future devices that may be difficult or impossible to etch a bunch of logos or fine print on, such as handheld flexible displays, very tiny devices, and so on.

 

[timborama]

What we have here is a scathing indictment of the American education system.

Half of 30 is 9

Back on topic:
The article says that they'll still have to put all the other logos on so no money will be saved. If you are laser engraving, you aren't paying by the logo or letter.

Not to mention the OP said half a cent, not half a dollar.

Go 'merica!

 

[RedOrchestra]

I don't care about the politics behind this, I will just be happy to see a more simplified devices.

Were you going somewhere with your comment, before you were interrupted?

 

[tennisproha]

complete non-issue. if this is what we care about as a society then we have a rough future ahead of us. I'd rather them have to print the whole product warranty on the back in exchange for a better tax system or healthcare. you know, **** that matters.

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Does this really benefit users at all? There will be no savings passed onto us

of course! iPhone will now start at $198 lol.

 

[LordQ]

Nice...Hope they also remove the Model blabla EMC blabla...

Just leave Designed by Apple in California.

 

[dysamoria]

"...pass savings onto consumers..."

Riiiiiiight... because THAT happens, ever...

 

[Solomani]

Words can not describe how pointless this law is.

Someone's baby (or dog, or pet goat, or sister-in-law) died because of FCC etchings, so naturally they sued to get this legislation passed.

 

[dysamoria]

With statements like "...pass savings onto consumers...", I sometimes think that there's just this quiet agreement between government and corporations to not call each other out on their BS. Government is all about politics anymore, so the people in these positions are more than happy to not call BS on things that won't directly hurt them, in return for their own BS being tolerated...

No conspiracy. Just human behavior in groups of powerful entities where politics and blab matter far more than sense and rationality.

 

[R3k]

Folks, when iPhone 7 comes out, let's see if Apple passes the savings onto us...

Yep, I can see it now.

iPhone 7 32GB Silver (GSM) Terizon&ATTWC

$198.50

 

[NY Guitarist]

I'm unclear why some posters think this is a waste of time. Are you saying that it's a waste of time to NOT put the etchings on devices?

 

[kdarling]

Macrumors, we've been over this image before, those aren't all FCC marks.

+1

Verizon iPhone 4 without FCC logos on left, GSM iPhone 4 with FCC logos on right.

Misleading image. The one on the left would still have several logos. You even wrote about it:

However, it is also likely that the certification labels representing the European Commission (EC) and its Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) initiative will still be seen on devices.

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As for a possible advantage of this law to a company like Apple, remember that the ONLY device image that the FCC does NOT keep secret upon request, is the location of the currently required label... which in Apple's iPhone situation, has to include the shape of the outside case.

E.g., for the very first iPhone:



Other phones often have removable backs, and their label is inside. Thus they only had to show the inside of the case, which is usually much less revealing overall.

 

[user418]

I'm afraid you're the ignorant one if you think that just because somebody doesn't like Obama that makes them a republican. For instance I don't like either side and actively support certain third party candidates when possible. Some people may say that I'm throwing away my vote but at least I'm not insane like the American public, who goes from hating republicans to loving democrats to hating democrats and loving republicans. They're pretty much all the same and they're all duping you guys. Each one that gets elected is a bigger jackhole than the one before. Other options are available if people would just stop following the herd groupthink mentality of partisan divisiveness.

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Anyway, as for this FCC thing I'm not sure why everyone is arguing about it. Who cares what the reasoning is—it's a better change in the long run. I can't imagine how well this forum would have received news that a law passed which added more mandatory text to your devices. You guys would have had a conniption. Some liberal hippie could want to pass a law that lists out every single chemical inside an iPhone that could be potentially harmful across the back in a massive list. Or some conservative redneck could pass a law requiring a giant soaring bald eagle across the back that says "Murica, hell yeah!" You never know with these morons.

And you actually think your so called third party candidates are any better or different. You my friend have also been duped......

 

[JAT]

As for a possible advantage of this law to a company like Apple, remember that the ONLY device image that the FCC does NOT keep secret upon request, is the location of the currently required label... which in Apple's iPhone situation, has to include the shape of the outside case.

I thought we were against the whole "xxx copied Apple" thing. Prior art, normal shapes, blah, blah, blah.

 

[flyinmac]

$0.50 x 30,000,000 = $9,000,000

You're right, they don't save much (if anybody wanted a visualization).

Curious where you got your number from. 0.5 is half. Half of 30 is not 9.

 

[kdarling]

I thought we were against the whole "xxx copied Apple" thing. Prior art, normal shapes, blah, blah, blah.

???

Not sure what you mean.

I'm talking about how Apple tries to keep their new phones secret, so they can do a big reveal for the press each year.

(Although, granted, that's been a useless endeavor the past few years. Almost everything gets leaked ahead of time now.)

 

[Avenged110]

Do you miss antennagate too?

1) The 4S had a glass back as well and one of my personal favorites of antenna configurations which did not suffer from any form of "antennagate."

2) I never had an issue with that. I really loved my iPhone 4 and would still use it today if it had a better camera. It's my favorite iPhone overall.

 

[Yvan256]

.50 cent savings here we come! lol

$0.50 x 30,000,000 = $9,000,000

You're right, they don't save much (if anybody wanted a visualization).

0.5 cent is not $0.50, unless you work for Verizon.

 

[nsayer]

Words can not describe how pointless this law is.

I agree. It certainly was pointless to have those alphanumeric strings etched in an unreadable font on the back of everything. It's good that that's finally been done away with.

 

[simonmet]

Surprised those stupid logos were even required to be on devices in the first place! For what purpose? Was it not enough to have them clearly visible on the product's packaging and in its manuals?

Pretty sure no such requirements exists in Australia. If it doesn't meet Australian standards it can't be sold. Simple as that! Even on packaging and in manuals is probably more than what's required.

So thanks for giving me all those foreign certification logos on my iPhone Apple! Could've been saving money long ago if you didn't want to print them for foreign markets.

 

[sracer]

Curious where you got your number from. 0.5 is half. Half of 30 is not 9.

Common Core strikes again!