That's another thing that right to repair advocates are talking about.
Devices need to be designed to be repairable, which would make them a
bit bigger and a bit more expensive and this is the hardest part of
right to repair advocacy -- where government should force the
corporations to make devices more repairable.
Apple has been especially bad in the last 5 years or so with their
laptops -- Every time I contemplate getting one, they get worse.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmd9a5/tim-cook-to-investors-people-bought-fewer-new-iphones-because-they-repaired-their-old-ones
On 2019-03-05 1:10 p.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
A while back I took my ASUS phone to ASUS to see about repair.
Repairing the phone was going to cost me about 2/3 the cost of a new
ASUS phone.
Not like the repair of a 20,000 car where the repair cost runs from a
few hundred to a few thousand.
I think the right of repair is a good idea but I am not sure now many
highly integrated products are amenable to cost effective repair.
On 3/5/19 12:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote:
who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides
myself
that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or
sewing machine. Repair is a fringe, hippie thing now.
Is that because no one wants to or because no one can anymore?
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