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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by Nullabillity on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:08AM (#15550222)
> What counts as a repair and how would properitary components be made available for the repair? Under what markup do components need to be made available?

The bare minimum would be to require an infinite warranty. So free, and with compensation to the customer for the repair time.

Don't want to deal with that? Get rid of the damn locks already.

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by esmi on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:27PM (#15555175)
What is a lock and how does it prevent repair?

I think we would both agree that iPhone 7 is DRM laden. However iFixit, who is quoted in the parent article and gives iPhone a repairability score of 7 of 10, seems to think there are some things which are repairable at the component level on an iPhone 7 even to a layman at home. https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone_7

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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by Nullabillity on Thursday October 26, 2017 @06:52PM (#15563937)
Do they glue stuff in? Use special screws and connectors just for the hell of it? Use software checks to prevent the system from operating correctly if components have been replaced?
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Re:Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics by esmi on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:29PM (#15570980)
This answer provides designers with no insight on how they can improve products to make them more reparable, even if they intended to try to adhere to your world view.

How does one interpret this? No glue allowed at all in any product or subassembly? Do you seriously believe any iPhone engineer would say a connector or screw was there "for the hell of it"? You claim a software check prevents a device from working. I'm sure their software engineer would claim the check ensures it works as advertised (or safely or whatever) because they don't know what you just did to it.

Your reply very clearly shows you have not thought through the consequences of your request.

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