<story><title>The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers</title><url>https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cle</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence&lt;p&gt;Come on, it doesn’t take much effort to think of the benefits of controlling the quality of batteries that are put in the devices.&lt;p&gt;I agree with your sentiment, but it doesn’t help to pretend like there aren’t benefits to supply chain control.  Just look at Amazon.</text></item><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>I feel sad that we need to educate and demand &amp;#x27;The Right to Repair&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I accidentally noticed that my iPad Air 2 which I &amp;#x27;ve been using as a external display for ~ a year has its battery bulged and even pushed out the display[1]. If I hadn&amp;#x27;t noticed this, It could have ended really bad.&lt;p&gt;But now I have to wait for the heat gun to arrive to remove the battery  for safely discarding it, as Apple has made it really hard to change batteries. I don&amp;#x27;t intend to replace the battery, as I think any device with battery and without charging pass-through feature is a potential fire hazard when using for any application which involves charging constantly. I have removed other such devices (incl. iPhone) preemptively.&lt;p&gt;More over I&amp;#x27;m tired of spending money on expensive hardware which I don&amp;#x27;t own completely. There&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence, which are bad for the consumers as well as for the planet.&lt;p&gt;I will vote with my wallet for Fairphone, Pine64 like brands here after.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;heavyinfo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1302310594423345152&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;heavyinfo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1302310594423345152&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyphar</author><text>This seems like a reasonable point, until you note that Apple explicitly forbids &lt;i&gt;their manufacturers&lt;/i&gt; from selling &lt;i&gt;genuine&lt;/i&gt; batteries to anyone. If the issue was simply that Apple didn&amp;#x27;t want their brand to be tarnished due to low quality third party batteries, they could do what Samsung does and provide public access to their manufacturers so anyone can buy genuine parts.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers</title><url>https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cle</author><text>&amp;gt; There&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence&lt;p&gt;Come on, it doesn’t take much effort to think of the benefits of controlling the quality of batteries that are put in the devices.&lt;p&gt;I agree with your sentiment, but it doesn’t help to pretend like there aren’t benefits to supply chain control.  Just look at Amazon.</text></item><item><author>Abishek_Muthian</author><text>I feel sad that we need to educate and demand &amp;#x27;The Right to Repair&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I accidentally noticed that my iPad Air 2 which I &amp;#x27;ve been using as a external display for ~ a year has its battery bulged and even pushed out the display[1]. If I hadn&amp;#x27;t noticed this, It could have ended really bad.&lt;p&gt;But now I have to wait for the heat gun to arrive to remove the battery  for safely discarding it, as Apple has made it really hard to change batteries. I don&amp;#x27;t intend to replace the battery, as I think any device with battery and without charging pass-through feature is a potential fire hazard when using for any application which involves charging constantly. I have removed other such devices (incl. iPhone) preemptively.&lt;p&gt;More over I&amp;#x27;m tired of spending money on expensive hardware which I don&amp;#x27;t own completely. There&amp;#x27;s absolutely no reason for not making user-replaceable batteries other than planned obsolescence, which are bad for the consumers as well as for the planet.&lt;p&gt;I will vote with my wallet for Fairphone, Pine64 like brands here after.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;heavyinfo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1302310594423345152&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;heavyinfo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1302310594423345152&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>There is no reason to make that supply chain control mandatory. If I want to risk a third party battery on my phone that’s my business is it not? It’s my phone, it’s my third party battery.</text></comment>