Several states, including California, Colorado, New York, and Minnesota, have already enacted right-to-repair laws. Moreover, 30 other states have introduced similar legislation. Apple not only supports the idea of a natio...
In the United States there has been some interesting legal battles taking place, centring around the "right to repair" which could give consumers the opportunity to repair their own software-enabled devices, as opposed to having to use the often more expensive repair service of the original ...
According to the report, 30 US states by last year have "considered" some form of Right to Repair legislation, and PIRG noted that over the last three years, six US states had passed a total of eight Right to Repair laws. In April 2024, the European Parliament adopted aright-to-repair ...
In a handful of US states, lawmakers have signed right-to-repair laws pressing companies to improve the repairability of their products.New York passeda right-to-repair law last year, but it went into effect with amendments that introduced OEM-friendly loopholes. Meanwhile, other states,including...
We need to help them do their job.” Firms like Apple , which has consistently lobbied against right to repair legislation in the US and even taken legal actions against unauthorised repair companies, this August announced that it is rolling out an independent repair programin the States. Not...
With its second attempt at right to repair, California joins a cadre of 19 other states with similar legislation on the table. Get ready for shitty third party parts installed by shitty, untrained techs in shopping mall kiosks. Instead of ordering a part from Apple many users wil...
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States and U.S. Federal Trade Commission File Right to Repair Lawsuit Against John Deere Published:Jan 17, 2025 Minnesota and Illinois have joined the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in filing a Right to Repair lawsuit against John Deere. The U.S. FTC has been investigating ...
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 con...