The original "Right to Repair" law for car owners was passed in Massachusetts in 2012. The main obstacle to these laws comes from companies like Apple and John Deere, which argue that publishing repair documents
Thankfully, the right-to-repair movement has picked up momentum over the past couple of years, putting pressure on giants like Apple, Samsung, Google, and evenJohn Deereto make it easier for both consumers and independent repair shops to repair their devices. While bothAppleandSamsungnow have ...
We've put in the work, and now we're reaping the rewards.Doomcan run on anything. First apregnancy test, and now, even a John Deere tractor. The modification also makes a provocative point about right-to-repair laws, but more importantly: It'sDoom. On a tractor. ...
California is on the precipice of turning its Right to Repair bill into law. The state’s legislature has passed Senate Bill 244,according toiFixit, and all it needs to become law is to pass a “minor procedural vote” in the state Senate and then be signed by governor Gavin Newsom. In...
It's actually only been this difficult to repair your own devices for the past 25 years, after a critical piece of law expired and reopened the idea of repair monopolies—the term insiders use to refer to the opposite of right-to-repair. IBM was found to be a monopoly in 1956, and...
As companies like Apple and John Deere ramped up their repair restrictions, a right-to-repair movement slowly gained steam in the United States and Europe. The ideals behind the movement are certainly something we at XDA can agree with. People should be able to repair their own phones if the...
Over years of episodes, Benoit has broken down numerous times, learned enough to open his own service shop —The Electrified Garage— and taught viewers the exasperating limits of current repair legislation. In 2012, Massachusetts passed the Automotive Right to Repair Law, which gave car owners ac...
Gordon-Byrne’s organization, a nonprofit that lobbies for right to repair laws, was founded three years ago. Over the past year, the group has started to introduce legislation at the state level. They currently have about 180 official members, many of them large organizations such as repair ...
Source: Right to repair Automakers' lawsuit to overturn Massachusetts vehicle data access law goes to trial The trial has begun in federal court to hear the challenge brought by the vehicle manufacturers against the voters of Massachusetts on the data access law. . . . Our 2003 Prius had ...
Apple did not ultimately remove the manuals, but has not posted further repair instructions online. Multiple states have introduced Right to Repair legislation, but lobbying from Apple and other companies like John Deere has prevented it from passing. Apple co...