Aside from repair, the wider issue is, do you own your device and can you do what you want with it? There are three angles. First, in the law as Lehto points o

Aside from repair, the wider issue is, do you own your device and can you do what you want with it? There are three angles. First, in the law as Lehto points out, if they put obstacles to you modifying your device, things stray from Magnuson-Moss into antitrust territory. Second is the war on general purpose computing [1] where the corporations want you to have a curated, walled garden experience with no liberties of your device or the content it's carrying. And third, germane to a device maker, of course this gets into planned obsolescence as well. There's no conspiracy here, just economics going back 30's where a new car every 2 years was viewed as essential to the car makers. 1. https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html