> With Moore's law being toast, most hardware upgrades are extremely incremental. This is news to me. Not sure if you've heard, 1nm has already been achieved i

> With Moore's law being toast, most hardware upgrades are extremely incremental. This is news to me. Not sure if you've heard, 1nm has already been achieved in processors, and Apple has been keeping the progress curve alive with SOC architecture: https://siliconangle.com/2021/04/10/new-era-innovation-moores-law-not-dead-ai-ready-explode/ https://siliconangle.com/2021/04/10/new-era-innovation-moore... >No innovation is being stifled by requiring, say, user-replaceable batteries This is exactly my point. You have good intentions and are trying to solve the problem. But by doing so you've just made a dangerous authoritarian decision for the future of all computing. Who knows what form batteries will take in the future, especially as power needs are reduced. Look at how much less power the M1 SOC takes vs. Intel chips and multiply that by 10. Now think of all the new form factors that would be enabled by this, and where your law might be a hinderance in 20+ years (yet impossible politically to repeal). New tech is fragile. All it takes is one guy in legal to say "too risky, violates X law" and said experimental product is set back a decade or two. > Shitty chinese clones happen with a quickness even today, yet for some reason people still spend billions on name brand devices. I do not foresee this meaningfully changing. I don't have the same crystal ball to predict the future, I guess. How can you be so sure? Because America is the best at everything and will always be the best? History is filled with predictions of a future that never came to be. Overall, I'm sympathetic to the cause, but I think the RTR movement is a little too dogmatic and authoritarian for my tastes. If the market wanted the same things as RTR, companies would already be creating their products this way and minting profits. The market isn't perfectly efficient, but it mostly is. ...and if Apple is wrong, and people actually do care about user-replaceable batteries, you should run out and start a RTR-friendly hardware company tomorrow and win the market!