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Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by znpy on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:26PM (#24393948)
> Would you buy an iPad that cost say $100 more, and was twice as thick, so that you could repair it? I don't know, but that's not for me to mandate.

Ironically, Apple products pioneered the "glue everything, fix nothing" mantra AND costed the $100 more that you're talking about.

AFAIK, before the iphone all phones had a swappable battery.

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Re:The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortag... by sigstoat on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:00PM (#24395323)
> AFAIK, before the iphone all phones had a swappable battery.

they also had wildly lower power demands.

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