Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by choward on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:32PM (#21807461)

That is terrible. So they'll never create a device that is good enough that they'll sell for for 6 years unless they sell something they don't support.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by pgeorgi on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:02PM (#21808478)

Or extend the support: https://9to5google.com/2019/11/05/google-chromebooks-extende...

Other than that, few vendors sell 6 year old computers. Since Apple is often put up as model company here: 2013 had the iPhone 5s which was sold until early 2016, and the end-2013 MacBook Pro (based on Haswell) which was replaced by its successor in 2014 (based on Haswell-Refresh).

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by daemin on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:14AM (#21812236)

I think the point was that the product was so minimal and cheap that you would throw it away and get a new one like a phone.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by kulahan on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:26PM (#21820139)

Correct. That's why the vast majority of them are ~$250 or less

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