| > Please do not legislate to screw up my devices' durability and reliability so some wing nuts can, well, disassemble them with wing nuts. But rugged devices are generally much more easily disassembled and often even have replaceable batteries. Like Xcovers. We use them in work and they can be easily taken apart with torx screws, battery replaced etc, all while being much more rugged than normal phones and waterproof. The only reason I don't really use them is that Samsung keeps putting midrange CPUs and mediocre LCD screens in them. I really wish the S-active range was still around. The last one was the S8 active sadly. But these things don't have to be mutually exclusive at all. > The thing that's good for the planet is devices that last. That's the goal. That's your goal. Not mine. Upgradability for example makes devices last longer. Having the user decide what is repairable instead of a company also. > If you want to legislate something, legislate lifetime warranties. Lifetime limited warranties is what this will turn out to be. There's no point in a lifetime warranty if a supplier can simply refuse it because there's an unrelated scratch on the side so they can claim it to be user damage. I don't think trusting corporations is ever the answer. |
Users do not know better.
As soon as you have aftermarket repairs, next thing you know, users are suing makers because some aftermarket nonsense burned a hole in their leg, or more recently, because their entire multi-family dwelling burned down.
It's been interesting how fast the same places passing laws giving right to repair pass jump to pass laws that you can't use repaired things so people don't die.