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

Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by userbinator on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:37PM (#27002032)

Now "right to repair" includes not only designing devices to be easier to repair but also includes legacy software support? Where do we draw this line? If your M1 dies, you can't fab one yourself or run older software on it indefinitely.

If your IBM PC dies, you can definitely create a functionally exact clone based on publicly available information, and in fact many have done so, either virtually or physically.

IMHO if the manufacturer ceases to provide support, then it must open up the documentation and design, or allow all reverse-engineering of it.

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Re:It's your device, you should be able to repair it by OrwellianChild on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:40PM (#27002053)

More importantly, you can buy a new Intel chip to replace the one that failed, swap them out, and go about your day. Thinking about the gap between the lifecycle experience on the PC side vs. the Mac side is a good way to understand the difference between an ecosystem open to repair and one closed to it.

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