Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Astonishing Anti Repair Practices By Apple In the Last 15 Years (www.youtube.com)

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A pretty comprehensive video by Hugh Jeffreys covering how Apple has been restricting repairability in their devices, even before 2012.

P.S. Apple's iPhones may be exempt from California's R2R bill, apparently they slipped an exemption in there for "waterproof portable devices" 🤦‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And then a company comes up with repairable waterproof devices, thus disproving Apple...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Galaxy S5. Waterproof and a replaceable battery. It is easily possible to do better a decade later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They really don't care if some company did.