Proposed right-to-repair laws and increased government regulation may one day force manufacturers to make the spare parts and instructions needed to fix their products available to all. Some companies have already begun doing so, with the aim of giving customers more options for mending broken items, while also boosting their own sustainability credentials.
Right-to-repair activists say some consumer electronics brands, along with manufacturers of items like furniture and medical devices, deliberately monopolize the aftercare market of their own products to generate revenue from repairs and service plans, as well as to boost sales of new products. Right-to-repair laws have been proposed in a number of U.S. states from Arkansas, where a bill would make it easier for farmers to repair their own equipment, to Washington, where legislators hope to promote the “fair servicing and repair of digital electronic products.”
IKEA of Sweden AB has for years helped customers source what it calls spare assembly parts—the likes of nuts, bolts and screws—in-store and over the phone. In 2020 it aimed to make the process easier by letting customers order them free of charge online. He designed a modular laptop that can be easily upgraded, customized and repaired through features like a magnetic screen bezel and labeled internal parts.
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Bet - items will be built even flimsier so we will have to purchase spare parts more regularly than we would've previously had to purchase replacement items. And I wouldn't expect the spares to be cheap, either.
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HTC is still a company?
Wow...really lame
When will they allow/force all phones tablets etc OS to be updated ., stop the built in redundancy . Samsung Tab E stuck on Kit Kat .
horrible