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Pleeeeeeeease, European companies sell your products that comply with this in Australia!
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Started as a good idea to regulate industry for the benefit of consumers. Ends up with so many paid-for loopholes it's mostly useless.
The cynic in me thinks the only reason the law was created from the start was to extort money from big companies.
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Why have a list?
Just make everything repairable.
Because they were paid a lot of money to exclude certain products.
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So what exactly does this entail? Is Bosch going to make their dishwashers less awful to repair? Or are they going to say "well it's possible to repair it, and it's not glued shut like a phone, so we're good."
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wake me up when German cars are on the list. Until then I'll regard this as purely performative and will be overturned in some months.
Also: making repairable the very cell phones on which they require constant monitoring of private communications reeks of hypocrisy.
Yes I'm skeptical about all this.
Don't worry, the phones don't have to be repairable as long as they are waterproof.
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It's a good start.
Pisses me off that laws are required for this, but that's what we get for being ruled by the Epstein Class.