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geardaddy

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Wed Jun 22, 2016, 12:10 PM Jun 2016

Apple Opposes Bill Protecting Users’ ‘Right To Repair’

http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/apple-opposes-bill-protecting-users-right-repair-53136

Tech giant Apple is lobbying to kill a bill called the Fair Repair Act that would require smartphone manufacturers to publicly post repair instructions and make replacement parts available for users to purchase, an environmentally friendly change that would reduce the number of disposed phones. What do you think?




“Just trust Apple on this one. In a few years, those garbage heaps will be thinner and sleeker than ever.”
James Jaeger • Fabric Historian


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Apple Opposes Bill Protecting Users’ ‘Right To Repair’ (Original Post) geardaddy Jun 2016 OP
Apple will simply apply "planned obsolescence" to the environment itself n/t arcane1 Jun 2016 #1
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