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tl;dr I am saying the right to repair is good. however, I guarantee we over estimate how many have been impacted and in which categories it most occurs and more

tl;dr I am saying the right to repair is good. however, I guarantee we over estimate how many have been impacted and in which categories it most occurs and more than a few here are aiming for right to upgrade. right to repair laws need to exist to ensure going forward we don't go backward and that authorized individuals can secure the parts that could be replaced. we live in a world where anything from a phone to big screen tv can be made anywhere in the world and sold anywhere else. a lot of that comes from reducing manufacturing to as few components as possible leaving only large assemblies as being replaceable. Now these laws need to leave open the ability to use 3rd party replacement parts and re manufactured parts Let us look at our phones. Even if the case could be opened easily you have at most four to five truly discreet components that could fail and be replaced. Front glass, rear panel, circuit board, battery, and ?. I would love to see failure rates of each component, just want are companies fixing under warranty? Having that published would be very valuable. Now I took our phones as an example but even laptops are not that far off. Being able to repair is not the same as being able to upgrade and many want the later. However that could put you straight outside of any warranty in the first place. So playing with a modern day no moving parts except at most a fan you have the system case, display panel, battery, and logic board. Even if a manufacturer made it so you could replace memory and drive it could all be limited to only the capacities they sell for that sku. hell they could use non standard connectors internally to thwart it and ease manufacturing. as for appliances and big ticket house hold items from stoves, refrigerators, to TVs what do we get? what breaks in appliances? burners, circuit boards, compressors, pumps, and such. note : I work in the automotive parts industry and the right to repair vehicles is very important to us and others. I truly believe the laws are needed but I think people's expectations of what can be repaired in the realm of small electronics is unrealistic as many items are outside of the case four or five discreet assemblies

esperent 6y ago
> hell they could use non standard connectors The EU also has a law to require standard charging cables in the works. They could expand that to include other components. > Front glass, rear panel, circuit board, battery, and ?. In my experience, the part that breaks first through normal wear and tear is the charging port. The part that breaks the most overall is the screen, but that's by being dropped.

esperent 6y ago

> hell they could use non standard connectors The EU also has a law to require standard charging cables in the works. They could expand that to include other components. > Front glass, rear panel, circuit board, battery, and ?. In my experience, the part that breaks first through normal wear and tear is the charging port. The part that breaks the most overall is the screen, but that's by being dropped.