(Season 4) Minisode 9 – A Framework for Right to Repair (Updates)

Things in the Right to Repair world keep heating up! The framework laptop has arrived to change the landscape of the industry, and even some bigger companies seem to be buckling under their pressure. …and of course, some are stringently not.

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Sources:

• Framework Laptop:
  • Frame.Work, “Support Guides“
  • Frame.Work, “Preparing to Ship and Respecting your Right to Repair”
• Other Companies’ Repair Efforts:
  • Microsoft
    • Ars Technica, 8 October 2021, “Shareholders pressure Microsoft into expanding its right-to-repair efforts“
    • As You Sow, 24 June 2021, “Investors Urge Microsoft to Give Consumers Right to Repair Electronic Devices”
  • Valve
    • Engadget, 6 October 2021, “Try to fix Valve’s Steam Deck at your own peril“
    • Valve @ Youtube.com, 6 October 2021, “Take a look inside Steam Deck™!”
• iPhone 13 Woes:
  • 9to5Mac, 2 October 2021, “Video shows it’s possible to replace an iPhone 13 screen and not lose Face ID“
  • Computerworld, 29 September 2021, “Apple’s latest right-to-repair trick is delightfully evil“

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Opening Music: Synthetic Pleasures by MOKKA