QUESTION = what the Right to Repair fight is about with Apple? GENERATION = It is just retaliation against Apple for selling us inferior product. I use OEM like Apple repair kits and it only works when those kits are fresh on the shelf. For other types of items that are replaceable you need to change them because apple has sold you older and worse. RETRIEVAL #0 = Electronics right to repair---let the feature work as intended) in a iOS update. And to obtain service to replace batteries in out-of-warranty phones for a reduced cost of service ( compared to ). However, the "right to repair" movement pointed out that such a scenario could have been handled if Apple allowed consumers to purchase third-party batteries and possess the instructions to replace it at lower cost to the consumer. With new state Congressional terms at the start of 2018, seventeen states had introduced right-to-repair legislation by mid-January 2018; California joined in with their own state bill introduced in March. In response, by February 2018, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and the Equipment Dealers Association, representing most of the major agricultural equipment manufacturers, agreed to a similar memorandum as the automotive industry to provide comprehensive information for their farming equipment to users by model year 2021. However, in September 2018, the Far West Equipment Dealers Association reached a compromise with the California Farm Bureau with a version of this memorandum that while equipment manufacturers will provide manuals, product guides, and diagnostic tools to interface with on-board software, thus allowing famers to make physical repairs, this does not extend to any of the actual software or computerized systems on the equipment. The Association asserts that they need to prevent unauthorized access to software to prevent users from RETRIEVAL #1 = Electronics right to repair---Electronics right to repair The right to repair electronics refers to government legislation that is intended to allow consumers the ability to repair and modify their own consumer electronic devices, where otherwise the manufacturer of such devices require the consumer to use only their offered services or void the product's warranty. Section::::History. Section::::History.:Background. The right to repair concept has generally come from the United States. Within the automotive industry, Massachusetts passed the United States' first Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act in 2012, which required automobile manufacturers to provide the necessary documents and information to allow anyone to repair their vehicles. While not passed at the federal level, the major automobile trade organizations signed a memorandum to agree to abide by Massachusetts' law in all fifty states starting in the 2018 automotive year. Inspired by this approach, the Digital Right to Repair Coalition (DRRC), of whom later changed their title to The Repair Association (TRA), was founded in 2013 to carry the same principles to electronics. Section::::History.:Attempted legislation. With consumer electronics becoming increasingly more complex, many electronics manufacturers have instituted systems whereby the only means to repair a device or obtain repair parts would be through one of their authorized vendors or original equipment manufacturers (OEM). For example RETRIEVAL #2 = Electronics right to repair---restrict the release of confidential trade secrets and other intellectual property, such as the blueprints for devices. Moreover, companies also risk third parties dismantling their monopoly on key components and after-sale servicing and repair, the former of whom could reverse engineer these components and offer them at a lower price to consumers. However, if disassembly of tangible goods is outlawed for any third party, so is the right for consumers to repair said goods (even if the company has already hit insolvency or discontinues servicing). The practice of requiring consumers to go to the manufacturer for repairs has generally been criticized as anti-competitive as it prevents any type of third-party from servicing these devices, manufacturing compatible parts (that may offer more benefit to consumers, such as more environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes), and can stifle innovation. Further, recycling of old electronic goods can be inefficient or impossible without such information. Manufacturers have also been able to succeed in using legislation like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent consumers from tinkering with their devices. Some have argued that this restrictive approach by manufacturers creates planned obsolescence for consumer products, thus forcing consumers to upgrade their devices and assure revenues for manufacturers. TRA, representing both repair shops and consumer tinkers, saw a need to protect consumers' rights. One of its first activities was to promote RETRIEVAL #3 = Electronics right to repair---repair" movement began to grow, led by TRA. The movement gained a boost from the farming sector, where many farmers found they could not legally repair their own tractors or other farm equipment purchased from companies like John Deere without using the manufacturer's own repair services at a high cost to them. The American Farm Bureau Federation lobbied to provide the necessary exemptions from the DMCA to allow farmers to repair their own tangible equipment. TRA continues to lobby for state bills in numerous states particularly in the midwest to give consumers the right to repair their equipment. Companies like Apple, John Deere, and AT&T lobbied against these bills, and created a number of "strange bedfellows" from high tech and agricultural sectors on both sides of the issue, according to "Time". In late 2017, users of Apple, Inc. older iPhone models discovered evidence that recent updates to the phone's operating system, iOS was purposely throttling the speed of the phone. Apple responded initially that the goal of the software was to prevent overtaxing the older models of lithium-ion batteries to avoid unexpected shutdowns of the phone. Many blogs instilled on Apple users that Apple was purposely slowing down their phones to make users upgrade their phones. In response, Apple allowed users to control the battery throttling feature (disabling RETRIEVAL #4 = Apple Inc.---Protection Commission in Ireland also launched a privacy investigation to examine whether Apple complied with the EU's GDPR law following an investigation into how the company processes personal data with targeted ads on its platform. In July 2019, following a campaign by the "right to repair" movement, challenging Appleās tech repair restrictions on devices, the FTC held a workshop to establish the framework of a future nationwide Right to Repair rule. The movement argues Apple is preventing consumers from legitimately fixing their devices at local repair shops which is having a negative impact on consumers. The Department of Justice also began a review of big tech firms to establish whether they could be unlawfully stifling competition in a broad antitrust probe in 2019. Section::::See also. BULLET::::- Apple media events BULLET::::- Pixar RETRIEVAL #5 = Repair permissions---Repair permissions Repairing disk permissions is a troubleshooting activity commonly associated with the macOS operating system by Apple. The efficacy of repairing permissions to troubleshoot application errors has been debated. Section::::Overview. The BSD layer in macOS is responsible for file-system security, including the management of the Unix (POSIX) permissions model. Applications depend on the correct assignment and interpretation of permissions in order to function properly. Repairing permissions involves checking the permissions of a set of files and folders on a volume with macOS installed against a list of correct POSIX permissions and correcting any discrepancies. The list of correct permissions is compiled by consulting the various bill-of-materials (.bom) files. Typically, these files are stored within reduced-size Installer package (.pkg) files in the Receipts folder in the local Library directory (/Library/Receipts) on the volume being checked. Whenever a user installs software that uses the macOS Installer package format, a bill-of-materials file is created which can be consulted for future permission repair. Files whose permissions have been incorrectly altered by an administrator, an administrator operating with root privileges, or a poorly designed installer package (installed with similar privileges) can cause a wide array of problems ranging from application errors to the RETRIEVAL #6 = Electronic waste---The "Right to Repair" is spearheaded in the US by farmers dissatisfied with non-availability of service information, specialised tools and spare parts for their high-tech farm machinery. But the movement extends far beyond farm machinery with, for example, the restricted repair options offered by Apple coming in for criticism. Manufacturers often counter with safety concerns resulting from unauthorised repairs and modifications. Section::::Electronic waste substances. Some computer components can be reused in assembling new computer products, while others are reduced to metals that can be reused in applications as varied as construction, flatware, and jewellery. Substances found in large quantities include epoxy resins, fiberglass, PCBs, PVC (polyvinyl chlorides), thermosetting plastics, lead, tin, copper, silicon, beryllium, carbon, iron, and aluminium. Elements found in small amounts include cadmium, mercury, and thallium. Elements found in trace amounts include americium, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, boron, cobalt, europium, gallium, germanium, gold, indium, lithium, manganese, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, selenium, silver, tantalum, terbium, thorium, titanium, vanadium, and yttrium. Almost all electron