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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:24AM (#25912885)
Lots of phones have:

* designs that have to be cracked open with a significant chance of damage

* glue or seals that can't easily be undone/redone

* hard to get replacement parts

* software lockouts

* permanently locked bootloaders even when they stop getting security patches

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by astrea on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:34AM (#25943418)
Aside from the last two points, aren't a lot of these the result of progressing the state of the art? To get a fast SOC that has all the gizmos and gadgets and fits in a small, waterproof container you have to make some unsavory design decisions.
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