What Apple’s New Repair Store Means for the Right-to-Repair

CYBER

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4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Apple recently announced a plan to sell customers manuals and parts that will let them fix their own iPhone 12s and 13s. It’s a huge win for the right to repair, but what are the specifics of the plan and what does it mean for the future of the repair movement in America?

This week on Cyber, Matthew Gault and Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler sat down with heavyweights of the right-to-repair movement to answer that question. This conversation between iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, Repair.org’s Gay Gordon-Byrne, and U.S. PIRG’s Nathan Proctor covers everything from John Deere tractors to lies Apple tells when it’s lobbying against the right-to-repair.

A non-comprehensive list of the Motherboard reporting mentioned in this episode:

Half the Country Is Now Considering Right to Repair Laws

FTC Formally Adopts Right to Repair Platform

Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right to Repair iPhones, New York State Records Confirm

Apple Is Telling Lawmakers People Will Hurt Themselves if They Try to Fix iPhones

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware

John Deere–Backed Lobbying Groups Host Anti-Right to Repair Conference

Department of Commerce Says We Need Fewer Repair Restrictions

Apple Said It Will Stop Breaking Face ID on Independently-Repaired iPhone 13s

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0:00.0	I made this.
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0:10.4	It's a unit system. I know this.
0:14.8	It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything.
0:18.8	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.5	Eagle won.
0:22.3	The package is being delivered.
0:25.6	Hello out there in Cyberland.
0:28.2	I am Matthew Galt, and we have a special edition of Cyber
0:31.0	coming to you live on Twitch today.
0:33.6	We've got a real murderer's row of right to repair experts with us.
0:37.6	First of all, we've got motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Kebler, over there.
0:41.9	We've got Kyle Wean's CEO of I-Fixit.
0:44.6	We've got Nathan Proctor, USPIRG's head of their right-to-repair campaign.
0:50.2	And we've got Gay Gordon Byrne, who is the head of Repair.org.
0:55.1	I'm sorry, Gay, is that correct?
0:56.7	Are you the head of Repair.org?
0:59.2	Sure.
0:59.8	I'm really the executive director, but just don't call me late for dinner.
1:04.9	Fair enough.
1:06.4	And we are all, everyone carved a little bit of time out of their busy, busy schedules today because there is some big news out of Apple.
1:14.4	Jason, why don't you tell us what's going on?
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