>There are plenty of things you can do as a manufacturer to make things repairable, but there are just as many things that you can't do without making creating

>There are plenty of things you can do as a manufacturer to make things repairable, but there are just as many things that you can't do without making creating major issues in other areas. Absolutely. Also consider the movement up the foodchain of product development. How do you 'repair' something that's a SoC with a few wires to the outside world. Mechanical items, car parts for example, tend to move towards more complex unserviceable items...there was a time when mechanical fuel pumps were taken apart and rebuilt, headlights were a standardized $5 part rather than a major part of front-end styling. I see the concerns of people although it usually all involves some particular product family that they have a special kink for. I would guess that the endgame consists of items that cannot be serviced in any way (in order to push down manufacturing cost usually) combined with a figleaf of published information in order to satisfy the text of a 'right to repair' law.