Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
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#2What if I want to buy a device that is impossible to repair due to e.g. being inside metal/ceramics/glass?
Re: Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
#3This is bound to result in some interesting new paradigms to get around it
Re: Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
#4What if I want to buy a device that is impossible to repair due to e.g. being inside metal/ceramics/glass?
What if I want to buy a car that has no lights,breaks and pollutes 100x more then the norms?
There are many hardened phones that are repairable.
Edit: also a main issue with repairability is DRM and evil companies trying to use the copyright law so you won't publish repair manuals and schematics. Your ceramic phone won't suffer if someone shares a manual about it's internals .
Re: Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
#5What if I want to buy a device that is impossible to repair due to e.g. being inside metal/ceramics/glass?
What if I want to buy a car that has no lights,breaks and pollutes 100x more then the norms? There are many hardened phones that are repairable. Edit: also a main issue with repairability is DRM and evil companies trying to use the copyright law so you won't publish repair manuals and schematics. Your ceramic phone won't suffer if someone shares a manual about it's internals .
I was not talking about hardened phones, quite the opposite, a pure design item, so small and precise that any breakage of the shell could destroy it - that's the current direction of the market, which I like very much. Who exactly will I hurt with my phone, and when exactly is it going to gain around 1 metric ton and be hurtling down a highway? Since when is it fashionable to justify regulation with completely unrelated health/safety issues?
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#6I hope this doesn't result in a GDPR-like effect, but for phones instead of websites: "We're sorry, but iPhones aren't available in your region" followed by a redirect to google.com
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if I want to buy a car that has no lights,breaks and pollutes 100x more then the norms? There are many hardened phones that are repairable. Edit: also a main issue with repairability is DRM and evil companies trying to use the copyright law so you won't publish repair manuals and schematics. Your ceramic phone won't suffer if someone shares a manual about it's internals .
I was not talking about hardened phones, quite the opposite, a pure design item, so small and precise that any breakage of the shell could destroy it - that's the current direction of the market, which I like very much. Who exactly will I hurt with my phone, and when exactly is it going to gain around 1 metric ton and be hurtling down a highway? Since when is it fashionable to justify regulation with completely unrel…
E-waste is a problem that affect everyone. Also I edited my answer to add the DRM and copyright on the manuals issues.
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#8What if I want to buy a device that is impossible to repair due to e.g. being inside metal/ceramics/glass?
The legislation (at least ones like this) are not implemented thoughtlessly. Its likely that just allowing parts which have a short service life to be replaced would be enough.
Also anything which is structural is likely not going to be the part which maintenance needs to be done on
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was not talking about hardened phones, quite the opposite, a pure design item, so small and precise that any breakage of the shell could destroy it - that's the current direction of the market, which I like very much. Who exactly will I hurt with my phone, and when exactly is it going to gain around 1 metric ton and be hurtling down a highway? Since when is it fashionable to justify regulation with completely unrel…
E-waste is a problem that affect everyone. Also I edited my answer to add the DRM and copyright on the manuals issues.
And how exactly does this change the fashion of buying the latest iPhone-looking phone every second year? The older devices are perfectly functioning, they just don't look like the owners wish. Most people I know have a drawer full of 100% working phones, some broken displays here and there but that is trivial to have repaired today.
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#10it might be difficult to buy all the new ones you need for the next couple years.