[GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

[Alex Volkov (A Valued Subscriber)]

That's another thing that right to repair advocates are talking about.

Devices need to be designed to be repairable, which would make them a 
bit bigger and a bit more expensive and this is the hardest part of 
right to repair advocacy --  where government should force the 
corporations to make devices more repairable.

Apple has been especially bad in the last 5 years or so with their 
laptops -- Every time I contemplate getting one, they get worse.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmd9a5/tim-cook-to-investors-people-bought-fewer-new-iphones-because-they-repaired-their-old-ones

On 2019-03-05 1:10 p.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> A while back I took my ASUS phone to ASUS to see about repair.
>
> Repairing the phone was going to cost me about 2/3 the cost of a new 
> ASUS phone.
>
> Not like the repair of a 20,000 car where the repair cost runs from a 
> few hundred to a few thousand.
>
> I think the right of repair is a good idea but I am not sure now many 
> highly integrated products are amenable to cost effective repair.
>
> On 3/5/19 12:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote:
>>> who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides 
>>> myself
>>> that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or
>>> sewing machine. Repair is a fringe, hippie thing now.
>> Is that because no one wants to or because no one can anymore?
>>