i _would_ consider adopting the fixtures and paying the $1200 fee but they're model-specific and you can't ask apple to sell you just the swappable parts of the jigs the next time, sadly
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apple interpreting "right to repair" as "we need to not just sell parts but provide accomodation for a person with no skill and possibly limited ability to install them in our existing devices" is excellent and i want to see more of it
manuals/tools will only improve over time
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should this all be involved in repairing a phone? i dunno, you try packing all that complexity into a light and robust package
should this all be involved in replacing a battery? if you want a thin phone that's IP rated, probably, it's a tradeoff
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i think a core issue here is that "i want a right to be provided with supplies and equipment for repairing my devices" and "i want my devices to be easily repairable" are two completely separate wants and you don't get the latter by requiring former
they're both very valuable!
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Can I have "I want my device to receive calls, texts and mobile Internet" and have it be my desktop/laptop instead of a phone? =)
That would be a major improvement. I want to be able to install a PCI modem and call it quits, rather than wasting money on an ineffective Pocket PC!
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From what I can tell, the ability to do calls and SMS seems to be locked off in many modems.
If I had a list of good ones which weren't dodgy Huawei or equivalent, then I'd stop using a mobile phone entirely :-D
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That's not the only corner they're cutting:
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A lot of those products are horrifying. Probably not great that they're selling people modems that are essentially a multi year old Android smartphone they don't feel like properly supporting with updates.
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Some of them simply include a smartphone SoC running a poorly done / barely maintained fork of Android to interact with the baseband. They implement a compatibility layer in there to convert from the Android radio HAL to another interface exposed to the main OS in the computer.
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Main Pinephone modem option works this way. It got warped into people thinking the modem firmware can be replaced with an open source OS. There's no verification for the Android fork on the application processor of the "modem" so you can replace that, but not baseband firmware.