California, the home to many of tech’s biggest companies and the nation’s most populous state, is pushing ahead with a right-to-repair bill for consumer electronics and appliances. After unanimous votes in the state Assembly and Senate, the bill passed yesterday is expected to move through a concurrence vote and be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
As Louis Rossman said: “if Apple is happy about this, I’m worried.”
Just wait till apple fucks around and finds out
Apparently Apple backed it… Color me confused.
They can see the wind turning. Instead of fighting the current, they’ll just try and steer the ship where they want it now.
They used to make their computers with components that could be upgraded. That stopped a decade ago. Hopefully we’ll get to see products like that again. It would be a refreshing change.
Then they either have some exemption or end up benefiting from the law in some indirect but significant way.
Still allows for Software blocks/serialization, but small, itty bitty victory I guess.
I sincerely hope this is included in a follow-up bill, because that’s already a big issue and it’ll only get worse.
This should be the norm for America. I hope it catches on.
I read that as caliph before I found out that it’s not written with an f in English.
