Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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iFixit ends self-repair collaboration with Samsung, because Samsung was not committed to it (liliputing.com)

submitted 5 months ago by lgsp@feddit.it to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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As revealed by iFixit, Samsung collaboration never worked well, with parts that were too expensive, and/or glued together (like a battery+screen replacement!)

Moreover Samsung never really tried to make their designs more repairable.

ifixit blog post is full of episodes, like when Samsung and iFixit announced an upcycle program, and then Samsung disappeared.

Ok, Samsung is cleared not interested in making their product repairable.

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[–] maculata@aussie.zone 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Samsung has been leading the charge towards enshittification for many years.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A dominant market position will do that to you, it seems.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

I think there is more to it, but it definitly helps. Basically, there are still people that make those decisions.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 19 points 5 months ago

If a phone vendor cares about repair and reuse, they will unlock their bootloader. If they don't unlock the bootloader, then they are in the business of generating e-waste