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I don’t think bills like this will matter in several years for phones, unless they somehow start forcing manufacturers to design for manual repair. The end game for all these manufacturers is a phone assembled, repaired, and disassembled for recycling entirely by machine. I believe they already do this for the recycling.

I support right to repair in general, and I’m not particularly opposed to this bill, but it seems a bit hopeless in the long run.

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Even if they don't explicitly design for manual repair, forcing them to publicly provide schematics, individual components (directly or through an agreement with their supplier), and any software required to successfully complete the repair would be a big step in the right direction.

lol no thas not the end goal because its a net negative to repair stuff no matter how cheap and easy you can do it. Every repaired last years model is a this years model not sold.

Manufacturers try to pretend that they are pro repair but very few are really.

anybody who has manual manipulators and a manual can repair a manually repairable device. A device that needs special tools to break open or take apart increases the likelyhood that its just tossed and this years new model is bought instead.

The end goal is automation and functionality regardless of how difficult it makes manual repair. Almost nobody values manual repair capability when purchasing, so why would manufacturers?

Consumers just want easy repair/replace when it happens, and the more resilient the product the less they care.

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