I have followed Paula Bennett’s political career with some interest. Her attempts to become a Westie I thought were ridiculous but in John Key’s National his caucus had to look like all of us so the effort, misguided as it was, was worth it. Since leaving Parliament she has augmented stints as a real estate […]
B.A., Tufts University
Nathan leads U.S. PIRG’s Right to Repair campaign, working to pass legislation that will prevent companies from blocking consumers’ ability to fix their own electronics. In 2009, while working with the network’s Digital Team, he mobilized so many people to deliver online comments to then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in opposition to cuts to the state parks budget that they crashed the governor’s email servers. Nathan lives in Arlington, Mass., with his wife and two children.
Right to Repair campaigns aren’t only making progress in more than two dozen states, they’re also underway across the world. The European Union has already enacted reforms to make it easier to fix appliances and Australia is ramping up efforts to allow independent repair people and people like you and me to fix things ourselves instead of having to get help from the companies that made our broken products.
A big barrier for independent repairers, according to Muradian, is the serialisation of components within Apple’s latest release, the iPhone 12.
Put simply: if a part of the latest iPhone, like the camera, stops working, it can’t be replaced with an identical, working camera. The only camera that will work is the one that came with your phone. If you try to replace it, it will lose its full functionality. Replace the camera, and you won’t be able to use portrait mode. Replace the battery, and you won’t be able to review what percentage it’s charged. Replace the home button, and you won’t be able to to use it to navigate the phone.