They need broken up. The current government’s.lack of action on so many anti-monopoly laws is awful.
I agree that breaking them up would do some good, but in the case at hand you would just have a longer list of companies working together to defeat r2r.
If you could break them into very small pieces (e.g. split Google’s Android line into 6 different companies instead of 2), then you might see some competing for repairability against Fairphone. But still maybe a long shot. I walk into a phone shop and have 10s of different brands and not a single one of them has tried to go after the built-for-long-life market. Fairphone is alone on that AFAICT.
I think the only way out of this is to ban the environmentally detrimental practices of burying batteries in glue and booby trapping toothbrushes to self-destruct when opened. Because there will always be enough zombie consumer masses willing to buy that shit.
Sad
Buy used pixel, put calyxos or grapheneos on it…
Deny these corpos your data. You are feeding your enemies otherwise.
Thanks for mentioning Calyx OS… Added it here:
You think Trump’s Congress is going to defend Right to Repair? It’s the end of all things.
I looked through the article and didn’t see anything linking this to Democrats.What made you say that, that way?
Tell me you don’t understand who Donald Trump is, and what’s about to happen in the United States, without, you know, telling me
