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Right To Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada (vice.com)
Canada is the newest frontier in the fight for the "right to repair" after an Ontario politician introduced a bill on Thursday that would ensure individuals and independent professionals can repair brand-name computers and phones cheaply and easily. From a report: Manufacturers make it incredibly difficult to repair our broken devices ourselves. Instead of taking a smashed phone to a local repair professional for an affordable fix, a complex matrix of trade secrets and government intervention often means consumers have to make a pricey trip to the Genius Bar or buy a new device entirely. This is bad for your wallet, but also bad for the planet.
Ontario Liberal Party MPP Michael Coteau ran into this issue head-first after his daughter dropped his Samsung smartphone. An official repair job from the manufacturer was more expensive than just getting a new phone from his carrier, he told me over the phone. "It's a shame," Coteau said, "because the Samsung S8 was very good for me. Everything was perfect. I would've kept using it. But now I've replaced it." On Thursday, Coteau introduced a private member's bill in provincial parliament that, if passed, would be the first "right to repair" law for electronic devices in North America. More than a dozen US states are currently considering similar bills, but nothing is on the books yet in the US or in Canada.
Ontario Liberal Party MPP Michael Coteau ran into this issue head-first after his daughter dropped his Samsung smartphone. An official repair job from the manufacturer was more expensive than just getting a new phone from his carrier, he told me over the phone. "It's a shame," Coteau said, "because the Samsung S8 was very good for me. Everything was perfect. I would've kept using it. But now I've replaced it." On Thursday, Coteau introduced a private member's bill in provincial parliament that, if passed, would be the first "right to repair" law for electronic devices in North America. More than a dozen US states are currently considering similar bills, but nothing is on the books yet in the US or in Canada.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 had: .
.it was also WATERPROOF. There are YouTube videos of people taking their S5 phone swimming, shooting video underwater with it, and coming up to the surface. A video of someone washing their S5 in a front loading washer with the screen locked to the on position so you could see the well lit up phone during the entire washing.
* removable back, which covered a . .
* replaceable battery
* SIM card
* SD card
* A headphone jack (how cowardly compared to Apple's "courage")
BUT . .
Wow. A phone that was waterproof, with headphone jack and replaceable battery. Somehow we no longer have the technical capability to build that combination of features in a phone.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
In Canadian politics, private members bills (bills presented by an individual representative rather than the party in power) almost never get passed. This one is doubly unlikely as it was proposed by an MPP of an opposition party, under the majority government of a right-wing, pro-business, quasi-populist premier.
So, move along, nothing to see here. It's not going to happen.
I went through a huge mess to find a properly working LG V20 and from everything I've read it was one of the last and fastest fixable phones. It features a replacable battery, sim and microSD slots. It was held together by about 22 regular micro screws and nothing was permo glued causing Ifixit to jokingly say V stands for "Very Repairable". I hope it lasts a long time compared to the epic glued together phones of today.
English must not be your first language. He was mocking Apple's self described "courage" when they removed the headphone jack from the iPhone.