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Default 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer



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On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 09:43:47 +0000, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

On 10/03/2021 08:49, Jeff Layman wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56340077

Will this make any practical difference?

Hopefully.

Apple needs to change its ways.


Making their batteries user replaceable would be a start.


That's not going to happen, hardly any of the top end
smartphones are done like that anymore, for a reason.


and that reason is:

so that you are forced to throw it away and buy a new phone when the battery
dies