Perhaps you missed this part in my comment: > That said, during this march we need to allow certain frequent repairs (like screens and buttons) to be easily ac

Perhaps you missed this part in my comment: > That said, during this march we need to allow certain frequent repairs (like screens and buttons) to be easily accessible, because that is fair. Keyboards and buttons make sense, as those are mechanical parts users interact with a lot. Ports are a different story. Is over-use of ports really going to be as much an issue in in 5-10 years? We're fast trending away from lots of ports, favoring wireless for networking, audio/video streaming, and charging. And as far as standards go, USB-C and Lightning are better designed to break at the cable without breaking the device - a much better (engineering) approach to solving this problem. Also, at some point if you break USB jacks on 5 of your Samsung phones, perhaps you should buy from a different vendor that can make something more durable. I think that goes for a lot of cheap products - they break more often because they're not built as well. Introducing legislation to reduce the frustration of cheap products today would come at the expense of forward progress and finding engineering solutions to these in the years to come.