| >There's nothing currently that would prevent a repair shop from repairing a device or sourcing parts from other devices. It can be done, but it is a huge waste. Take the A1989 Macbook. Let's say you bring it in because it stops charging. It's 2019. It's dead. Let's pretend I am a normal repair shop, and not someone with youtube fame that can find someone at intersil/renesas that can get me chips. Let's say the ISL9240 charging chip dies. I can, in theory, do my research, and find out that the iPhone XR charging case uses the same chip. I can buy that charging case for $100+, disassemble it, locate the ISL9240, remove it, reball it, and replace it on the customer's logic board. but......this is insane. a) I have to waste a battery charging case, including the lithium battery. b) I am adding $100+ to the repair cost since I have to stock & sell this case now just to get a chip. c) I have to do research to figure out what other device on the market uses this chip, on top of the work of figuring out what is wrong on a complex 5+ layer PCB. The viability of this repair, for a shop that needs to get their customer in & out in a day or two for them to remain satisfied, goes out the window almost immediately. >Even if we're talking about Apple devices or even Sony devices, there needs to be a balance between repairability and access. What does this actually mean? What is the downside to this chip being made available for sale, so that when the device fails it can be repaired? What are we balancing here? >Now, someone with enough social followers can create a PR nightmare for a company based on something that's totally out of that company's control so it's no surprise that no one wants to open up that Pandora's box. It is 100% within the company's control whether or not they want this part to be available; the reason it cannot be sold to anyone is because they make it that way. >I'm fascinated by the fact that people like Louis Rossmann are both the perfect example of why Right to Repair should work while at the same time being an amazing example of why the current versions of R2R can't work. Where is the argument in favor of why this cannot work, and how I am example of it? Where is the citation? How is it for decades parts and chips were made available with zero problems and now it can be asserted that this "can't work" with no explanation? This increasingly feels like someone's throwing poo at the wall in the hopes of finding something that sticks. |