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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Replacing the screen adhesive on an apple watch costs more than a new watch according to Apple! (youtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Thankfully Jonathan was able to take it to an independent repair shop for a $75 CAD adhesive fix (and battery replacement?) despite Apple's restrictions against them.

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[–] PrimalHero@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes of course, but you can choose not to buy an apple product because in this case you have a choice.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Again, depends on who you ask. I'm a designer who uses an ipad and a macbook pro as a travel work setup.

The ipad has a different input that helps me make more ideas quickly and adobe makes it easy to work on a file using multiple devices. And then it acts as an extended display via wifi or a type c cable which charges the device as well.

Except the iPhone, their products pay for themselves imo.

[–] PrimalHero@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

I have used android tablets as extended displays without problem.
I don't understand the charging argument all android devices have USB charger.