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Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right To Repair iPhones, New York State Records Confirm (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Lobbying records in New York state show that Apple, Verizon, and the tech industry's largest trade organizations are opposing a bill that would make it easier for consumers and independent companies to repair your electronics. The bill, called the "Fair Repair Act," would require electronics companies to sell replacement parts and tools to the general public, would prohibit "software locks" that restrict repairs, and in many cases would require companies to make repair guides available to the public. Apple and other tech giants have been suspected of opposing the legislation in many of the 11 states where similar bills have been introduced, but New York's robust lobbying disclosure laws have made information about which companies are hiring lobbyists and what bills they're spending money on public record. According to New York State's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, Apple, Verizon, Toyota, the printer company Lexmark, heavy machinery company Caterpillar, phone insurance company Asurion, and medical device company Medtronic have spent money lobbying against the Fair Repair Act this year. The Consumer Technology Association, which represents thousands of electronics manufacturers, is also lobbying against the bill. The records show that companies and organizations lobbying against right to repair legislation spent $366,634 to retain lobbyists in the state between January and April of this year. Thus far, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition -- which is generally made up of independent repair shops with several employees -- is the only organization publicly lobbying for the legislation. It has spent $5,042 on the effort, according to the records.
It seems reasonable that any parts that the company stocks to perform routine repairs at a service center would be available to the public.
You a car manufacturer wouldn't replace the internal parts of a water pump at a service center, they just replace the whole unit. They also sell the water pump as a whole unit to the public.
Likewise something like the screen assembly or battery for your phone are obvious components to make available to the public these parts are simple to replace and done in-store in minutes. Resoldering components on the logic board is something that isn't even done on refurb units, it's just not worth the cost to do those kind of repairs vs. just replacing the whole board.
Exactly what types of broken states of a phone are you requiring a company to publish guides to fix, and make parts available for?
This is horribly simple, such that any simpleton should be able to figure it out: any documentation they produce for in-house use should be provided to any customer, and all parts that they replace in-house should be available for sale to any parties at a reasonable price.
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The manuals for Precision and PowerEdge are absolutely awesome, too. Build quality of PowerEdge is great these days.