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Surely it is a good example because it would force companies to engineer products to be serviceable?
by Angostura 5y ago
Surely it is a good example because it would force companies to engineer products to be serviceable?
- xxpor 5y agoPretending there's no tradeoff between size/capabilities and reparability seems pretty naive
- refulgentis 5y agoPretending there's no reason at all to discuss that tradeoff and calling people naive for discussing it seems pretty rude or rushed.
- t-writescode 5y agoFair; but, there’s a reason why, when discussing criminal justice reform, for example, we don’t talk about giving Dommer a shorter sentence. There are better examples where that right can be agreed much more broadly and that can drum up support for the change in the law. Politics is, among other things, a popularity contest.
- refulgentis 5y agoyeah but we're not talking about politics (thank god), just whether its better to have itty bitty headphones or force makers to have replaceable batteries, which is one imagined instance of a much broader situation (someone less generous might call it a strawman)
- t-writescode 5y agoRight for repair will be solved in politics, which is what this is all about, at the end of the day
- xxpor 5y agoNot when the person is calling for legal action to force everything to one side of the tradeoff
- kube-system 5y agoI have not seen any right-to-repair legislation that would do that. They typically require companies to share repair parts/tools/documents. I would be against a right-to-repair bill that amounted to creative handcuffs for engineers. Engineering is an exercise in prioritization and there are sometimes very legitimate reasons to deprioritize serviceability. For example, the tires on my car are designed to prioritize safety and efficiency, rather than being able to be retreaded.
- rowanG077 5y agoYou will eliminate certain products, which probably includes airpods. Serviceability can have a real cost. And if you are on the cutting edge it cannot simply be added. Not that I think that's a problem. I would be happy with companies being forced to engineer for serviceability.