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Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law
Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law:
Bloomberg today released a report on how companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are working together to put a stop to laws that would make it necessary for companies to provide device schematics, genuine repair parts, and repair manuals to independent repair technicians.
Almost 27 states have considered the laws in 2021 alone, but in more than half of them, the laws have been voted down or dismissed. Many lobbyists and trade groups representing tech companies have fought hard against this law with Apple pointing out that such measures could lead to device damage or consumers harming themselves when attempting to repair their devices.
In Washington, for example, Washington House of Representatives Democrat Mia Gregerson sponsored a Right to Repair measure that was fought by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, along with lobbyists representing Apple. Lobbyists later said that Apple would endorse repair programs at local colleges if the bill was dropped.
Also at Bloomberg and MacRumors.
See also: Leaked Apple Documents Inadvertently Helped the Right-to-Repair Movement
Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to Get "Right to Repair" Legistation Passed Through a Direct Ballot
Summary Louis Rossmann, electronics repairman and YouTuber, has started a nonprofit and GoFundMe campaign to fight to get right to repair legislation passed through direct ballot initiatives. For years Louis has talked about the importance of right to repair and how it has become more difficult t...
Right to repair series - Louis Rossmann
In this series he specifically explains why we need better right to repair laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyM7FxEaShI
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 22 2021, @12:17AM (2 children)
Good point. However, the drive is not to make everything "consumer repairable", but "repairable". The average automobile driver cannot, will not even attempt, to change his fuel injectors. Joe Average doesn't have the tools, the skills, or the know-how. But, Joe can take his oversized Hemi down to Uncle Albert's auto repair, and have all the work necessary done, at rates much cheaper than Mopar will ever charge.
We've touched on soldering and other hot work in other discussions on SN. I suck at it. I can solder big stuff, but my vision and muscle control limits me with a soldering iron. I simply could not disassemble then reassemble something like a smart phone. But, I know people who can do that kind of work - in fact, they enjoy it. I can outperform some of these guys all day long on most of our work, but I have to give them my fine soldering work. They eat that shit up.
We want the right to decide if, how, where, and who is going to make repairs on our stuff. We don't want to answer to the Corporate Masters. We don't want to pay $700 for repairs that Jim Bob's Electronics is willing to do for $90.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Saturday May 22 2021, @01:12AM (1 child)
But that would mean actually having a free market. We cannot have that!
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Saturday May 22 2021, @06:42AM
But that would mean actually having a free market. We cannot have that!
^^^^ This, a thousand time, this!
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