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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by kilotaras on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:03AM (#25913552)
That state is not stable (in game theory sense) though.

At least on Android there's no real vendor lock-in so defecting from "unrepairable" phones will let you eat some portion of competition sales.

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:18AM (#25915436)
And since that doesn’t happen, it means the economics of a repairable phone don’t make any sense.
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