India Proposes Right To Repair Framework for Mobile Phones, Consumer Durables

India has proposed to introduce a right to repair law, aiming to provide consumers the ability to have their devices repaired by third parties to fight the growing "culture of planned obsolescence" in a move that follows similar deliberations in the U.S. and the UK. From a report: The Indian Department of Consumer Affairs said Wednesday that it had set up a committee to develop a right to repair framework. The committee identified mobile phones, tablets, consumer durables, automobiles and farming as important sectors for the framework, the ministry said. "The pertinent issues highlighted during the meeting include companies avoiding the publication of manuals that can help users make repairs easily," the ministry said in a statement.

Moving in the right direction

[bubblyceiling]

Glad the whole world is moving towards a more repairable future

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[luvirini]

The manuals part might be huge.. even if not available elsewhere directly. As if they are available in one market, but not others, someone will copy them and distribute them illegally..

Remember when computers came with schematics?

[Seven Spirals]

I do. Goddamn I'm old. It was nice, though. I still have a poster sized schematic of my A3000. Still have the A3000, too. Replaced every cap, built a custom ATX power supply and upgraded and installed quite a few chips too. I run NetBSD on it. I love when the Chinese hit it with spectre/meltdown type exploits. Haha! No speculative execution 7337 h0x0rs. Lol.

Right to a product I want

[backslashdot]

So manufacturers are to be forced to make a product that only a minority of their users want. Most people rather have features like thinness and waterproofness over repairability. If users want replaceable batteries, how come every phone maker ditched the idea? You would think a manufacturer who made phones with replaceable batteries would be filthy rich by now, Instead, every phone make ditched the idea,.

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[Required Snark]

Wow, you're really stupid. Gadget makers know that cheap crap that breaks, is not reliable, and can't be fixed == PROFIT.

You're new here, aren't you.

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[backslashdot]

You buy cheap crap that breaks?

And where were the parents?

[BobCov]

The predator is taken care of. He'll be in jail until he is killed or worse. The platform hopefully will face judgements so large that it will become insolvent and cease operations. The conduct was absolutely outrageous. A very good case will be proven that they pimped kids to pedophiles for profits. If we are lucky, maybe criminal cases can be filed against the owners in addition to the civil case. And finally, over this period of 4 years that this poor girl was brutalized, where were her parents? How do