[PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2024/03/oregon-passes-expansive-ri
ght-to-repair-law-defying-tech-industry-concerns.html

 

I notice Google and Android are not out there whining like pansies.

 

I think this needs to be on the docket as a speakers topic once the bill is
signed.   Do we know anyone in the Right to Repair movement?

 

Ted

Re: [PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:


I think this needs to be on the docket as a speakers topic once the bill
is signed. Do we know anyone in the Right to Repair movement?


Ted,

There's a company called ubreakifix
. I used the one on Jansen
Beach and they seem to know what they're doing.

HTH,

Rich

Re: [PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

[MC_Sequoia]

"I notice Google and Android are not out there whining like pansies."

Quoted from the article.
"A cell phone industry trade group and various other electronics organizations 
and companies opposed the legislation."

The aforementioned trade groups and organizations are unnamed and the companies 
they're comprised of are unnamed. 

Also, calling things what the really are, corporate power over government 
regulatory action to protect consumers rights verses "whining pansies" goes a 
lot farther in better informing & educating folks on what is really going on

Re: [PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

" corporate power over government regulatory action to protect consumers rights"

Ah well NOW yer getting nasty!  I was being NICE.  And incidentally they are 
both - greedy dictator wannabes who are also whining pansies.

Probably should continue this on plug-talk, BTW.

Sorry but BOTH groups have no interest in consumer's rights.  If government did 
then I wouldn't have lost a TIRE on my
Wife's car last week when she drove through a pothole so large it popped the 
tire.  And this tire was 5 months old.

No, government is more interested in taking our road tax money and wasting it 
on Better Nato, Road Diets and Bicycle Lanes than actually fixing potholes.  
It's all about pet projects for special interest groups.

The only reason that any right to repair legislation got passed at all was 
because of a small minority of cell phone repair businesses got together, 
pooled some money, and started waving it around some politicians.  Don't delude 
yourself that the politicians gave a rat's ass about "consumers"

The RtR legislation was very carefully tooled to exclude a LOT of electronics.  
Pretty much it was crafted to allow small shops to continue repairing cracked 
iPhone screens.  Total First World Problem since the Iphone is the most 
expensive cell phone out there.

Ted

-Original Message-
From: PLUG  On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia
Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 12:18 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group 
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Celebration time, COME ON Apple SHUT THE F UP!!!

"I notice Google and Android are not out there whining like pansies."

Quoted from the article.
"A cell phone industry trade group and various other electronics organizations 
and companies opposed the legislation."

The aforementioned trade groups and organizations are unnamed and the companies 
they're comprised of are unnamed. 

Also, calling things what the really are, corporate power over government 
regulatory action to protect consumers rights verses "whining pansies" goes a 
lot farther in better informing & educating folks on what is really going on