Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets

Re:Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets by droithomme on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:52PM (#22570799)

> I'm sick of "renting" batteries that are permanently installed in devices that would otherwise work for tens of years, but their batteries wear out after only a few years.

Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the hard drive, that lasts at most 2 years, is impossible to replace without great risk to the device, special replacement gaskets, etc, and when you do it turns out the original had a proprietary temperature sensor that means your replacement dies in 6 months.

RAM welded to the motherboard on general purpose computers is another design horror that harms the environment and should be banned. All RAM should be upgradable on devices that cost more than $1000.

Also the era of cell phones without SD slots must end.

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Re:Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets by lotsofpulp on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:03PM (#22571268)

> Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the hard drive, that lasts at most 2 years

Source? I’ve never experienced this using even low quality hard drives. If you’re including SSDs, then between 15 to 20 Apple products over the past decade plus have not had an issue within 2 years.

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Re:Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets by AnthonyMouse on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:12PM (#22571968)

This obviously depends a lot on usage. Rotational drives are sensitive to physical shocks (common for portable devices; people drop them), while SSDs have a limited number of writes. This basically makes them wear items which a well-designed device should make easy to replace -- much like the battery.

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