It's your device, you should be able to repair it

Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by spamizbad on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:29AM (#26994703)

You are conflating Right to Repair efforts in Europe with those in the US. Naturally, the US laws are more deferential to capital interests and is less consumer-friendly, and simply ask that companies don't ban the sale of components to independent repair shops, firmware lockouts of replacement parts that only the manufacturer can provide, etc.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by css on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:31AM (#26994742)

What does the European definition of "right to repair" entail, then?

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by GuB-42 on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:12PM (#26995343)

Not exactly the answer to your question but France recently adopted a repairability score that has to be shown, just like the energy efficency class or nutrition labels.

The criteria are:

1- Documentation

2- Ease of disassembly, with a subsection on the necessary tools and a focus on the parts that are most likely to be serviced (for smartphones: battery, screen, ...)

3- Availability of spare parts

4- Price of spare parts relative to the finished product price

5- Extra criteria which depend on the type of item, for a smartphone, software updates are in this category

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by rasz on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:15PM (#26996288)

and Apple devices score 7 out of 10 and up. Its all self assessment. This law is a farce.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by GuB-42 on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:49PM (#26996831)

iPhones are surprisingly repairable. But yes, some scores are... unexpected.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by jll29 on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:58PM (#26999913)

The idea is good, the implementation needs improvement. Germany hasn't adopted the French approach, but awaits a Europe-wide initiative. Let's hope the lobbyists can't pull its teeth.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by mattmanser on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:01PM (#26995199)

They've got a whole study about it, if you've got time to read it (I haven't :):

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/6487...

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by spamizbad on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:44AM (#26994951)

The article gives some examples, but I think more broadly the European Right to Repair efforts seem to align the repairability of consumer electronics with what we've come to expect from automobiles.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by anticristi on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:55PM (#26996908)

That industry can also use some "right to repair". I can't type www.peugeot.fr and find schematics, propriety diagnostic codes and repair instructions.

Granted, these are available from 3rd parties for a rather modest fee.

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