This would hurt consumers. Closed hardware has advantages (as well as disadvantages), and consumers should not be forced to forgo these. If you want to change your own battery, you are free to buy a phone from a manufacturer other than Apple.
Similar rules apply to cars which need not be easy to repair just possible to repair.
I’m a consumer who prefers thinner devices over easily-repairable ones. (At today's levels of miniaturization, saving the volume fasteners would occupy might permit an additional co-processor, or some other useful functionality.)
A state government dictating how non-essential, competitively-produced consumer electronics should be designed is textbook overreach. Minimum warranty periods, increased warranty scope, increased recycling taxes, open schematic requirements, et cetera better target the factors we care about. Better targeting minimises unintended consequences. Unfortunately, that bill wouldn’t earn its drafters pitchfork points.
Glue does not allow for thinner devices, non removable batteries do but that's a different thing. It sometimes saves fractions of a cent for the manufacture and that's about it. Now, if we want to make an exception for anything under 200$ I would say that's reasonable, but past that point most people want at least the option to try and have something fixed.
My viewpoint minimizes externalities and makes the economy more efficient. Your viewpoint increases consumer costs without any benefit. Considering democratic rule is based on the people net benifit wins.
Gluing in batteries enables much thinner, lighter construction. Maybe you think that’s unnecessary for a phone, others might differ, but for things like AirPods it’s a huge difference. In any case this issue is at least partly overblown, dealing with glued components makes home repair hard, but professional workshops and recycling specialists can often use heat systems and solvents.
Apple’s touchID is only secure if the system can trust the fingerprint data it gets from the touch sensor in the screen assembly. If anyone can plug in whatever screen assembly they like with no hardware secure identification, guaranteed security becomes impossible. The same is almost certainly true of the FaceID sensors.
So yes there are very real direct advantages from these manufacturing methods and from closed hardware systems. Whether you care about them is up to you, but surely it’s also up to each of us to choose for ourselves?
If Apple wants to continue to do this then they should be force to pay for the cost of recycling their product.
The non-repairability is imposing a real pollution cost on the rest of the world. In recent news China has decided to stop taking in the rest of the world's garbage. The toxic metals are now going to be leaching in to US water supply not just China's. Recycling/reuse/repairability has a positive economic benefit.
Yes I did, if it’s a problem with specific products then yes I think it should be addressed. Apple prides itself on an industry leading record on recyclability and any backsliding from that is unfortunate. However using glue, by itself, isn’t always a problem. It would set a significant ussue for recyclability if iPhones for example.
Companies don't want to say you can repair it when it breaks because that implies it will break.
Remember this is assembly not CPU design or something. Companies want the ability to source from multiple other companies so at some point you get individual components.
Part of the value of ownership is being able to repair your own purchases.
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> If you want to change your own car battery, you are free to buy a car from a manufacturer other than Ford.