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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by kllrnohj on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:47PM (#31460123)
No it doesn't. Requiring Apple to sell or allow 3rd party replacement parts as well as providing repair documentation does not in any way prevent them from making the phone they currently are.

You're confusing (perhaps intentionally) right to repair with the EU's proposal to mandate easily swappable batteries. They are not the same thing.

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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by spookthesunset on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:03PM (#31460264)
You can sell the parts and manual, sure. But making it easy for a layman with non specialized tools? That is a tall order against cost, weight and waterproofing.
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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by kllrnohj on Saturday May 21, 2022 @02:53PM (#31460703)
Being easy isn't a primary goal. Simply being possible at all is the goal: https://www.repair.org/policy
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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1.... by ddingus on Saturday May 21, 2022 @10:43PM (#31464434)
The goal is to make sure things are possible

When they are, there will be plenty of people capable of making it easy. There always are.

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