What is right to repair? The movement Explained
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Should you be able to fix the stuff you own without going to the original manufacturer? That’s one of the central points around the growing right-to-repair movement.
0:00 — Right to repair explained
0:21 — What does right to repair do?
1:00 — History of right to repair
2:50 — What manufacturers say
4:06 — FTC report to Congress
5:16 — FTC and the ‘safety’ argument
6:34 — What right-to-repair advocates say
7:52 — What’s next for right to repair?
8:54 — President’s executive order
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We should have a right to repair our own equipment BUT with the caviot that if we damage the equipment further by doing so the manufacturer can refuse to fix the device afterwards and limit their service offered to replace only.
All of these money grubbing corporations who have profits reaching record levels still can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage. Now they want all the workers who struggle to pay living costs to pay outrageously high prices to repair a device or buy a new one. How is this sustainable?
Yeah we should be able to replace the glass back with some stronger and even lose the wireless charging.
Right to repair isnt about “Should you be able to fix it yourself?” but about “Should anyone except the manufacturer be able to fix it ?”
I fix things around my house why? Because I can do it and it’s my house I paid for it .why can’t I fix my own iPhone? I paid for it in full?
Spread this video like a repairable wildfire! Everyone needs to hear this!
After seeing how stupid people are the last few years I agree they are too dumb to repair their items. I think it’s fine to allow people to do it just remove the warranty if they do and problem solved, if theirs a safety issue it’s on them.
We aren’t comparing a mechanic to a dealer we are comparing a normal person off the street trying to repair something they aren’t qualified for and don’t have the correct tools to do
It’s like a car — you can repair, but it’ll cost you depending where you go to get it fixed. Apple has opened up more approved vendors as they don’t want that headache of getting sued if an unapproved third-party did more damage in an attempt to fix. Is it better to trade-in an old device for a new one? Of course — much better margin for Apple, but also customer experience. Do the math for trading-in, or iPhone Upgrade Program. You don’t need the fanciest and largest device; they’re continuing to sell the older models longer, and have options at all price points.
Tech monopoly has to end. Taking away a charger from the box doesn’t reduce carbon emissions what really reduces carbon emissions is to make spares available thereby increasing the life span of products. A consumer should not be forced to Upgrade. Upgrading to a newer technology or device or equipment should only be the customers choice alone.
Its yours, take it wherever you want or can afford to pay for the repair! If my car breaks down, do i have to take it back to the dealership well under warranty yes, but out of warranty no! This is some serious bs!
Personally even though i use iPhones, I think that using smartphones is making a lot of people a lot dumber. In earlier times phones used to be just that, a phone
To call and maybe at max to text (horribly difficult to do at the time btw) and it really wasn’t that difficult to repair the thing because it was made quite simply. But in times like today, phones and everything electronic in general is a lot more difficult to make and your average smartphone user isn’t really gonna know how to open/fix the damn thing without the thing having a ton of compromises. Personally i’d like a world where the google phone blocks project was alive and actually a damn product rather than just a concept to fall in love with, because I unlike my family CAN make a lot of adjustments to both my phone and my custom built gaming pc, but to most people (like the ones in my family) simplicity is way more important than things like how customisable or how easy to repair something is. I’m the kinda guy who owns a gaming laptop AND a gaming pc and have upgraded both where the laptop was much harder to disassemble and even though i use this myself, if some average person asks what laptop should they buy where the only stuff they have to do is email, and a bit of MS Office then rather than getting a laptop like i have i just suggest them to get an iPad because it is much simpler for them to understand and it’ll be much more value based than any kind of cheap windows device which’ll have terrible battery life, be super heavy, be wayyyy slower and much more difficult to learn. So rather than wasting their money on a 3–400$ laptop which they might hate using i just tell them to get a base iPad and use that because that’s much more reliable and will be a lot more fun than a laptop, and they’ll learn about it much quicker than any other laptop.
And these are the reasons why i’m a bit on the fence on this whole right to repair thing
Damn this video went ADHD for a moment
You should be allowed to repair it. Apple has been exposed many times for scamming their customers into buying new units instead of repairing it 🤨
Right to REPAIR FOREVER!
You should be able to have your products that you purchased repaired anywhere that you choose. It seems that companies follow the worst aspects of Apple. I got a bunch of Apple products. I’ll kind of deal with that there, but I never will buy a Tesla until they change their repair policies. Tesla also needs to work on their quality control
I just want to fix my devices if I can and to be able to choose who can fix it if I can’t. Apple for one is one of the biggest companies against right to repair in my opinion, I know for a fact I can do a battery replacement for say an iphone 8 at the cost of the battery alone since I know how to do a repair like that and thats another big one, batteries don’t last forever, they eventually need to be replaced but the cost of a battery compared to having apple themselves do the repair is ridiculous! What might cost someone with basic skills and knowledge of a device say $20 bucks, having that same repair done by apple or any company for that matter at least five times more expensive, even a third party repair shop with all the knowledge in the world won’t charge you that ridiculous amount, considering they are a fair business who has fair pricing. But what it comes down to and I’m not just trying to bash apple they just happen to be one of the biggest of many companies who would rather you just upgrade your so called broken device instead of the probability that it’s a simple fix wich saves tons of e‑waste and let’s be honest is getting worse not better. I as a small one man show repair tech for example have a pretty tall stack of mostly iphones on my workbench that because apple is so against right to repair makes these devices wich have plenty of life, useless, I use them for parts then recycle anything else that I can’t use and believe me there is a lot I can’t use or make a simple repair to give a device another life. It’s just sad, really pathetic that more companies who claim to care about e‑waste and our environment are only making it worse because as I said earlier they would much rather someone upgrade or just replace thier device because it makes them more money, having only that particular company be the only way to get your device repaired allows them to jack up the prices for you guessed it, more money, and when most people are quoted these outrageous prices for a simple repair, most companies such as apple have an answer to that too. Why not just upgrade for a little bit more? Wich is another tactic to make more MONEY! While in all honesty the device they had before is most likely easily, and cheaply repairable by anyone with knowledge about certain tech and third party repair companies wich gives the device more life and therefore less waste in the long run. In the end it’s all about MONEY! These companies don’t care about the effects of their practices, they only care about thier bottom line and how can they keep taking your hard earned money. It’s really disgusting how greedy people have become and if your as sick of it as much as I am please like my comment. Change has to start somewhere.
Yes!
& also have even more options!!!
I’ve had better repair service by third parties for a multitude of different products than I have at ANY dealer. Third party repair shops have more skin in the game to make sure they give a quality repair and make sure you’re happy.
Yes support
“Should”? No, it must always be an option to be able to repair your devices/vehicles yourself or take it to whoever you want. It MUST be a legal right it seems since companies like Apple took advantage of the fact that most people don’t care about repair or if they need it fixed they go to an authorized repair anyway because it is covered by warranty and by the time it expires, they will get bored of the device and will want a new one.
DIY repairs are REQUIRED in many industries. If you can’t fix your tractor before a harvest goes bad you and the appointment at the local dealer is too late then you are done for. If the military can’t fix their equipment and vehicles in combat zones they can literally die.
All anti-repair arguments are BS and most of them can be fixed by making genuine parts available to anyone who wants them. Security measures can be built-in to each replaceable component if it is necessary but most repairs like replacing a battery, a charging board or replacing a charge control chip on-board will not pose any security/safety risks, especially if done using genuine parts.
Software locking the device is an even worse offending problem since you can replace a broken part with a genuine one but the device will not work properly which is total BS.
If R2R passes and companies see that they can no longer get away with it, then all devices will start to be more repairable and genuine parts alongside with manuals/schematics will be available to anyone who needs them so most if not all of the current problems with the third party repair industry will be solved.
Give people choice, as Apple did with privacy. Let the consumers choose from which shop they want to repair their products.
Ofcourse you should be able to fix the stuff you bought. I know companies want you to make them fix it for you or just buy a new one, but reputation is way more worth that a bit of extra cash.
FANTASTIC commentary on this subject. CNet you rock
The biggest up and coming driver for electronic waste must surely be Microsoft’s intention to push the Windows 11 operating system onto consumers in the very near future. This new system has mandatory minimum system requirements that will render most current PCs and laptops obsolete.
There is no valid technical reason why existing hardware should not be able be able to run “windows 11” other than the fact that Microsoft plans to build-in ‘incompatibility’ with current hardware (after all it’s only an operating system — which does not add any value to the apps it hosts) .
This is pure greed and is totally irresponsible bearing in mind what Microsoft (and Apple) have already done to the planet and the monopoly they hold in the tech sector.
Greedy Companies: But if you repair yourself it may not work work anymore, you worse, you may even injure yourself.
Consumers: Thanks, but no thanks. 🙂
It’s disgusting how greedy some of these companies are, it’s even worse that they think they can get away with it too.
How is this even a question???? It’s yours not theirs.
It’s upto users… As argued by those greedy companies that security is the concern then people have choice if such is the case thay are free to go to authorised service centre
It’s upto users… As argued by those greedy companies that security is the concern then people have choice if such is the case thay are free to go to authorised service centre
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes, obviously.
“We take customer security very seriously.” ‑The company who owns the chain of stores repeatedly caught lying to, violating the privacy of, and ripping off customers. Also the company who recently announced that they’re going to bypass the encryption of data to snoop on user images, and who sell customer data because the billions in profit from hardware and software just isn’t enough.
Where was the security protecting customers from Apple?
Yes, yes you should. Full stop.
The answer is not “maybe”, it’s “obviously yes”
What normal people think of when they hear rights to repair: stop gluing batteries, stop soldering RAM, SSDs and ports for no reason
What Apple/Tesla/whatever fanboys think of when they hear rights to repair: reject modern technology return to flip phones
Apple says, they’re removing some components to save the earth from so much e‑waste products. While they have a scheme to “no right to repair and proprietary components,” you broke it and get ridiculously charged to fix the products. The second choice is to just buy a brand new apple products. Where is the damn logic of saving the planet by buying brand new apple products just because your stinky iphone had a spilled water on a screen.
The American consumer accepted it when Apple made the battery unacceptable, other manufactures followed.
no corporation cares about the safety of people. they are still using slave labor. they care about their image.
VW Group has their own tools to repair their cars too
repair it at ur own risk 😎
Bring back pin cpu on laptop for better faster repair and less cost repair less waste please was better back in the day with socketable cpu they can put hole in motherboard that pins go through for saving space like soldered cpu and should be less cost affective for manufacturiers too please bring back pins cpus was more fun repairing back in the days
Yes absolutely