Not sure about you, but my hands are primarily dry and only occasionally get wet.

Dry-ish, it'll always be somewhat moist from sweat and natural oils and stuff. Which is why most jewelry is low or nonreactive.

Having to take a ring off whenever you wash your hands would be very inconvenient. At least in the spirit of the law this should qualify

Exactly. But I feel that “the design of that ring isn’t compliant” followed by “I don’t get my hands wet unexpectedly” is just the kind of claim you’d find on HN.

These are the same insufferable, out of touch people who expect a fresh pair of plastic gloves be put on for every sandwich the guy makes them at the deli, and are simultaneously outraged when their straw isn’t compostable.

I mean, that's what I do with my ring...

Cool.

What about an iPhone. Can you change the battery without specialized tools?

From 2027 onwards the answer will need to be yes, as a result of these standards.

And this time the whole world can thank the EU, Apple is definitely not going to create a special iPhone hardware just for us.

Or curse the EU, if the compromises necessary to make the battery replaceable result in a less robust product.

If you don't care about e-waste and repairability, of course.

If the phone is less waterproof or otherwise breaks more frequently, it could result in more e-waste.

Except they do. Theres country specific variations of the iPhone, with Hong Kong being the special region that got dual sim.

Or Apple will throw a hissy fit¹, stop selling them directly here, but get the sales anyway as people will buy them elsewhere and import to sell on the grey market.

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[1] Though last time they did that, disabling existing features in response to the app stores decision, they backed down PDQ, so maybe that threat would have no weight.