They need broken up. The current government's.lack of action on so many anti-monopoly laws is awful.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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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.
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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:
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