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Repairabilty doesn't nessacry mean easily user swappable parts. It just means that it must be possible for a repair shop to perform the repairs. The legislati

Repairabilty doesn't nessacry mean easily user swappable parts. It just means that it must be possible for a repair shop to perform the repairs. The legislation specifically targets DRM that's designed to specifically prevent unlicensed repairs and agreements that lock out independent third parties. I think it's a good idea as long as it isn't taken to an extreme.

mikl 9y ago
That might sound nice, but smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing. Like it or not, at the level of miniturisation we’re at, you need skilled technicians with proper equipment, and the easiest way to guarantee that, is for producers to do the service themselves. Otherwise, you’ll end up with lots of consumers with broken phones, because they chose the wrong repair-option.
- lucb1e 9y ago
  > smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing. If I open my phone and break something it's obviously my fault. If I root my phone, that should never void warranty when e.g. internal storage wears out way before time without excessive writes (this happened to me). There are still millions of people averted to the idea of "rooting" because it supposedly voids warranty (it never did under Dutch law) and because phone shops make it sound scary. Meanwhile making backups without sending it all to a foreign nation (Google) is impossible and installing another ROM (which made my Note 2's battery life go from 5 hours to 2 days after three years of use -- I'm currently at 5 years of use and it's finally starting to wear out for real) can't be done without doing effectively the same thing. What a bloody mess.

mikl 9y ago

That might sound nice, but smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing. Like it or not, at the level of miniturisation we’re at, you need skilled technicians with proper equipment, and the easiest way to guarantee that, is for producers to do the service themselves. Otherwise, you’ll end up with lots of consumers with broken phones, because they chose the wrong repair-option.

lucb1e 9y ago
> smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing. If I open my phone and break something it's obviously my fault. If I root my phone, that should never void warranty when e.g. internal storage wears out way before time without excessive writes (this happened to me). There are still millions of people averted to the idea of "rooting" because it supposedly voids warranty (it never did under Dutch law) and because phone shops make it sound scary. Meanwhile making backups without sending it all to a foreign nation (Google) is impossible and installing another ROM (which made my Note 2's battery life go from 5 hours to 2 days after three years of use -- I'm currently at 5 years of use and it's finally starting to wear out for real) can't be done without doing effectively the same thing. What a bloody mess.