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Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools | Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic (arstechnica.com)
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Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools | Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic::Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic.

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[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I suspect that they have found a loophole in the current bill's wording and don't want it to be changed.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They charge an insane amount for you to rent a repair kit for a short time to also order parts and do it yourself with no training. It’ll be ‘available’ you can self repair, but not likely.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Plus, you will still need their software to enable a replacement chip due to serialization. From my understanding, this entire aspect isn't addressed in the current wording of the bill.