Last year, the US Public Interest Research Group—a nonprofit that actively campaigns for right-to-repair laws in the US—released its first repairability scorecard. In it, the group graded the makers of popular consumer tech devices based on how easy those gadgets were to repair, the availability of replacement parts, and the accessibility of repair manuals. Perhaps not surprisingly, US PIRG assigned some of the world’s most prominent tech makers a giant “F” or near-failing grade. It was still too hard to fix your damn phone.
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