Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets
That will end in another monstrosity like WEEE making entry for hardware startups harder and harder: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electronic_Equipment_Directive" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Electrical_and_Electro...</a> Only big players with dedicated departments will comply easily.<p>And about right to repair I have bad experience: broken cable is enough for lots of buyers to throw away electronic appliances. Let’s be honest: majority of users will cause more harm than do good when repairing something. Another thing is planned obsolescence when electronics die right after warranty period ends. Buddy had this with high end washing machine and I had this with display recently.