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Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by JoShmoe to c/[email protected]

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I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Next step: demand unlockable bootloaders without breaking warranty and easy rollback to a stock system.

After that: mandate that firmware source code be bundled with sales of devices.

We're comin' fo dat ass, Steve Apple.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

We have to stop voting for neoliberals first, globally.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hard agree

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If the next iPhone has an unlockable bootloader, a USBC port, and a removable battery then I may just buy my very first iPhone (to run Linux on of course). With the work Asahi is doing for Mac hardware, an unlocked Apple Silicon iPhone could be an amazing Linux phone.