iFixit: We’re Calling on the FTC to Restore Our Right to Repair

NuXCOM_90Percent , 6 months ago

Good on ifixit. Those are reasonable requests, that can be more or less ignored or loopholed, with the real meat and potatoes being the repairability score.

Because, contrary to what some angry libertarian blowhards yell into a camera daily, not every device is or should be repairable. Microchips kind of demonstrated that. Where possible, boards SHOULD be replaceable. But "repair" of those devices is a lot closer to "get a new video card" than "swap out the burn out cap". Like, in terms of the parts Apple offers, I have zero issues (I do have a LOT of issues with their malicious compliance in how they offer those, though).

But that repairability score will solve this. Questionable design philosophies aside, Framework Laptops are a great example of this. They are a worse product than an ultrabook from one of the main vendors, but people will gladly get a "worse" product if it can be repaired and/or upgraded. And I can see the same tradeoffs applying to phones and the like.