Having the right to repair a device that you own is getting harder and harder. This is true for 2 reasons, the first one is because the OEM are making it extremely difficult to purchase repair parts needed for the repair and keeps lots of the firmware source code unavailable to us so that it…
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MY RIGHT TO REPAIR VS APPLE In early December of 2019 I received an email from Rob link over at Repair.org which turned into a meeting with Kevin O’reilly and Nathan Proctor from U.S. PIRG these organizations advocate for our right to repair. After those meetings it was clear that this was much bigger than…
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The right to repair movement has been around for sometime and is basically a movement that is promoting legislation designed to protect our right to repair the smartphones that we purchase without being forced to pay high repair fees by the OEM or being forced to upgrade prematurely. At Phonlab I have been working on…
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