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consider this, if Apple makes you sign a form that when buying this iPhone, you have no right to repair it on your own or take it to a non authorized repair sho
by sashank_1509 3y ago
consider this, if Apple makes you sign a form that when buying this iPhone, you have no right to repair it on your own or take it to a non authorized repair shop. You must go to Apple to get those repairs. How many consumers do you think would sign this? I reckon a good large majority, at least the number of people buying Apple care now would buy this. This is what kills right to repair, Apple and similar companies obviously lobby against it, but that’s not what kills Right to repair, the fact is regardless of the number of laws passed to support right to repair, until a majority of consumers are willing to repair stuff on their own or with third party repair-ers, right to repair will only matter to the small minority of people who care about it.
- uncletammy 3y agoApple is not the only hardware manufacturer and there are millions of consumers of non-apple hardware that will gleefully welcome this legislation. I agree that consumers are the real problem but government intervention provides a much needed safety net to keep these oligopolistic practices at bay while users slowly figure out why right to repair matters. We should be happy for any and all help we can get on this front.