Apple and Samsung be like: "It's not a mobile phone or a tablet, it's a phablet so it does not fall in to any category of the devices that need to be repairable."

I think Nintendo will transition to having only one version on the long term, precisely not to have to deal with two versions.

“Hold my beer” - Nintendo, releasing an EU centric revision.

i wonder, do we know what will be the price difference between the EU centric version and the international version?

That's also included in the directive. Manufactures will be required to provide OS updates for at least 5 years "from the date of end of placement on the market" (which means the date the brand shipped the last device of a model).

They also have 4 months to release security updates and 6 months for functionality updates see ANNEX II for all device categories.

Car manufacturers screwed over consumers the last 10-15 years big time! Cars used to be the big thing many could fix a lot on by themselves and were proud to do so. Then they basically just said incrementally to the DIY'ers "it's all computers now, not your cup of tea", purposely made cars less and less self repairable and got away with it! It's infuriating.

Okay, but the economics of doing that are different between software and hardware. It's much more expensive to have a full second hardware design compared to just turning a software feature off in certain markets.

The EU ones will become a lot more valuable on second hand markets...

Even then, Apple maliciously complied. They put shit speed usb-c, (maybe 2.0?) on all but the highest most expensive model.