Re: "Right to Repair" vs FRUs

It won't benefit boat-anchor devotees like myself, whatever happens. Expecting Tek or HP to supply a custom chip for something they sold

what would be the point of right to repair then?

Apple could continue to use a power-supply chip they deliberately have made to be incompatible with $0.10 otherwise identical IC, so they can say sorry you can't buy that, but we'll sell you a new motherboard for $1000

It is hard to hit the happy replacement time. Some industrial machines are in use for 50 or more years. I guess that the normal life expencty should come into play. Hard to believe in a way but a friend that has one says you can get just about any part for the modle T Ford that is nearly 100 years old. NOt from Ford but after market items.

I read that about 30 years ago the military needed a diode that would normally cost less than a dollar cost them many thousands of dollars. The military parts department did not have one and as it had to meet the mill spec the diode company had to make up a batch of thousands as one just could not be made. If not for mill spec the diode could have been ordered from about half a dozen places for less than a dollar.

It's still true. The military supply system is intended to maintain systems for many decades, well longer than most parts will be available. It's also true for jellybean parts, the cost of process and documentation well exceeds the cost of a bag of jellybeans.

Joe Gwinn

the added value of preventing anyone from repairing the device

noone is going to buy jelly bean parts from manufactures when you can get them faster, cheaper, from digikey et.al.

so they can just say the authorized repair centers don't do component level repair, they replace just the motherboard. unauthorized repair centers can't do component level repair because the manufacturer refuse to sell parts that they deliberate had custom made