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Remember, such criticisms exposing Apple's weak and hollow commitment to "right to repair" is essential to maintain public pressure on the regulators and the corporates to protect consumer rights. For example, activists and regulators should now highlight how ridiculous it is that you need ridiculous, expensive and specialised tools for Apple devices for simple repairs like battery replacement, when tried and tested alternatives designs for removable battery are already doable. Or how just using screws instead of adhesives, easily increases the repairability of devices. The pressure should be to make Apple (and other BigTech) to ensure ease of repairability should be a focus during the design of the product. E.g. the FrameWork laptop ( https://frame.work/ ), and not just an after thought to get around regulatory requirement.

One way regulators can go about ensuring this is to tag an additional "e-wastage" tax inversely tied to the "repairability index" ( https://repair.eu/news/the-french-repair-index-challenges-an... ) of a device . The less repairable a device is, the higher the "e-wastage" tax should be. This should appeal to some who think the consumer should be allowed to spend their money as they want. If some really want to splurge on a device that is hard to repair, let them also bear the burden for the environmental impact the waste creates.