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Patreon Podcast: The Reluctant Right to Repair Compromise (Patreon)

Published:
2021-04-01 13:07:02
Imported:
2024-01

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My iPad died after only 18 months, and getting it repaired by Apple doesn't make a ton of economic sense. But independent repair prices aren't much better -- and with the prospects of the Right to Repair movement looking grim, there's a compromise I'm unfortunately willing to settle for.

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Evangeline Domenech

I had a similar issue with my Apple Watch Series 1. The battery started expanding after about two years. It fell into Apple's repair extension for said issue, but I was told no and was offered the same out of warranty repair.

Anonymous

Coming from a libertarian perspective, we see the government involvement in basically anything as a permanent fixture. So if we get the government to go say, "Hey all companies who make electronic stuff! Can you not make everything disposable?" you can bet it will involve some paperwork. By government standards, probably not much. However, that's still thousands and thousands of pages that companies are expected to comply with. For Apple? Good deal. They'll hire some lawyers to go tear the damn thing apart and make the needed changes. But the small guys? Not so much. It really comes down to a class issue again. Can the small guys who want to play in Apple's court afford the admission fee? Can we expect competition to arise when the little guy can't figure out how to compete? I'm not so sure. I myself am a huge advocate of open source, spice, and everything nice. It's just that I can't wrap my head around legislation solving that problem. Being truthful, consumer protection is really just the government limiting competition. If we make a bunch of rules and tell the big guys to play, we get something that looks like improvement. However, I think it hides the fact that we just hurt the small company who might've rose up and become something better. Will people still see the legislation as a win? Absolutely, there's no doubt. But I just think it's really easy for us as a nation to overlook the small companies who could solve part or even most of the problem for us. Not everyone has the same solution to this problem, and I definitely agree the discussion is worth having. However, I'm not so sure everyone who is opposed to the whole concept is doing so because they hate access to parts or whatever. It's mainly because we don't like to see new legislation cropping up in places where it might be beneficial to have some space for small companies to get a foothold.