The posting (in French) was covered in several places including

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/26/22302664/apple-france-repairability-scores-index-law-right-to-repair

Apple has added iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to its online store in France to comply with a new French law that came into effect this year. MacGeneration reports that the rating takes into account features like how easily a device can be disassembled and the availability of repair manuals and spare parts. Links to each product’s final score, with details for how they were calculated, are available on this support page.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/382322

Apple has added iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to its online store in France to comply with a new French law that came into effect this year. From a report:

  • nBee
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    It’s not a perfect system. Radio France Internationale notes that manufacturers calculate their own scores (albeit based on strict guidelines), and they can gain easy points with simple measures like giving more information about software updates.

    While that is true, the scores here are a neat complement to the ones posted by iFixit alongside their teardowns. Hopefully the legislation can catch on in other countries as well.

    • @southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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      Well personally i’m very disappointed by these scores. Apple’s 6/10 both on iFixIt and according to french criteria sounds not so bad for customers, but is pretty bad to do anything with. I agree a linear scoring system for evaluation makes sense, but information should in my opinion be presented in less-granular way, eg. A/B/C for very repairable, moderately repairable, and badly repairable for notes corresponding to 9.5-10/9-9.5/0-9 respectively.