What Is Right to Repair?

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What Is Right To Repair? By MKBHD.

As tech improves, control over the product by the manufacturer gets tighter and repairability reduces.

It's about removing artificial barriers to repair (such as serialized components), not using older tech.

Also, there's no reason most things (especially wear/upgrade components lie batteries and storage) in modern devices shouldn't be replaceable but that's more about poor engineering than malicious business practices.

If we had modular parts in the past and manufacturers have decided to move away from that, I don't think it's as a result of poor engineering. It looks more like it's to retain their control even after a product has been sold.

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