The bill outlines three years for products costing $50 to $99.99 and seven years for products priced at $100 or more. The bill will cover electronics and appliances made and sold after July 1st, 2021.
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This sort of stuff is why I love living in California. I work in tech myself, but they never pay me those extra savings from cut corners, bad service, or environmental damage.
So we’ll have to travel to California to repair our phones?
I just had it with a less than a year old Pixel 6a… the screen started to separate from the phone. So I chatted with support and their reply was:
We guarantee all of our hardware issues with a great policy.
except this issue which we don’t cover
When I told him sure, if you never want me to buy a pixel product again, be that way and mysteriously a policy exception could be made a few days later. sigh.
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However, the California bill stands out in that it requires companies to expand access to repair materials like parts, tools, documentation, and software for a longer period of time.
“We’re especially thrilled to see this bill pass in the state where iFixit is headquartered, which also happens to be Big Tech’s backyard.
Another notable factor: Apple made waves last month when it announced it was throwing its support behind California’s right-to-repair act in a letter to Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, who authored the bill.
Apple also highlighted that its new iPhone 15 Pro’s titanium chassis makes it more repairable at its Wonderlust event on September 12th, hours before SB 244 passed California’s state Assembly.
“That’s good news, because as important as this legislation is, we have more to do if we want a more sustainable relationship with the electronics that power our modern lives.”
New York’s right-to-repair bill, for example, heavily disappointed activists after it was significantly weakened due to last-minute amendments that conceded convenient loopholes to manufacturers.
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So we’re going to get repair parts available from Xbox and Nintendo? And ways to flash a firmware onto it? It seems hard to imagine what this will look like in practice. It’s one thing to see fairphone or framework do it and it’s another thing to consider what it looks like for everyone.
Read elsewhere gaming handhelds may be exempt. Unsure if that’s accurate.
I’d like to see them guarantee availability of AR-15 parts! It’s the ultimate right-to-repair rifle!