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The right to repair is not the same as the right to maintenance or whatever you might want to call forcing the manufacturer to keep updating your device. The is
by saurik 4y ago
The right to repair is not the same as the right to maintenance or whatever you might want to call forcing the manufacturer to keep updating your device. The issue is when manufacturers make it so that it is impossible for anyone except THEM--actively excluding the so-called "owner" of the device, who somehow doesn't actually have many rights currently (and what thereby needs to be fixed)--to be able to develop fixes or updates.
- scarface74 4y agoWhat good is the “right to repair” a phone that is insecure?
- saurik 4y agoUsing the term "secure" to describe the property "the supposed-owner of the device is disallowed from having any control over the software running on the device" is a perversion of the term; I would prefer the locks on my house be secure in a way that prevents people I don't want to enter my house from getting inside, not in a way that prevents me from daring to using unauthorized furniture or having the gall to replace the door on one of my cabinets... Apple's version of the word "security" seems to often be more about helping developers implement DRM than about helping the user know their data is safe or private.