Also, more and more products will let you know until when they guarantee production of spare parts (it's also driven by regulation of course).
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Good, now let's increase the list and also add vacuum cleaners to it! I thought that they already were but seemingly not :(
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This is excellent news, but I really wish this same logic will spill into the recent "stop killing video games" movement as well.
That whole fight was really about consumer protection as well, not just about video games IMO.
I want to be able to be easily repair and support products that are past their manufacture supported end of life. This goes for both physical products and digital products!
WHY CAN'T WE GET THIS IN AMERICA I FUCKING HATE OUR POLITICIANS
Then make them fear you again.
You should hate the billionaires who own your politicians instead or as well, as they're the root of the problem.
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Great in theory until companies start charging 80% of the product price for a single spare part so you'd rather buy a new product than try to repair your existing one.
Depends on how it's done. If they have to make schematics and binaries available, it's different than having to provide parts at whatever cost they'd like.
This is also mentioned in the directive, and directives are legislative texts. The price may not be set so high as to deter repair.
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Good start I guess but missing plenty of things that others have already pointed out. This list only covers like half of devices in a household. Also, what is stopping companies from pricing replacement parts way out of proportion because of this? Even more than they already do now to prevent repairs
I wonder why the US doesn’t have this law.
Hmmmm. 🤔
I hold out the thin hope that manufacturers will not want to split their product lines any more than they have to and will make these devices available globally.
It's possible that they want to hang on to the revenue streams that making irreparable garbage generates, but it would have to be greater than the cost of designing and manufacturing a second product line for most of their stuff.
Kind of how like when dumbass apple was forced into USB-C in the EU and they finally gave up on their own charge cables globally.
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