> Apple must have access to these parts already because they’ll happily do out of warranty repairs, even on products that they no long sell.
This is not relevant. Nobody is forcing them to do these repairs. When the parts are no longer available, they stop doing them.
> The whole point of spares is to remove the need to throw away a device that’s 90% fine 10% broken.
Yes, and it may well be a counterproductive scheme that doesn’t work as intended.
1. You need to warehouse components to comply with the law, or continue to make otherwise redundant components, which means maintaining outdated industrial plant.
2. Devices with replaceable components have to be made in a more complex way that is more liable to break, costing more up front, and more in repairs.
There is no real problem with some hugh pile of slightly broken iPhones that are being wasted.
The real problem is the huge number of working iPhones that are too outdated to run modern software.
If we need a law, it is one that requires manufacturers to make a bootcamp equivalent for devices at the end of their software support cycle, so all the still working devices can continue to be useful.
This is not relevant. Nobody is forcing them to do these repairs. When the parts are no longer available, they stop doing them.
> The whole point of spares is to remove the need to throw away a device that’s 90% fine 10% broken.
Yes, and it may well be a counterproductive scheme that doesn’t work as intended.
1. You need to warehouse components to comply with the law, or continue to make otherwise redundant components, which means maintaining outdated industrial plant.
2. Devices with replaceable components have to be made in a more complex way that is more liable to break, costing more up front, and more in repairs.
There is no real problem with some hugh pile of slightly broken iPhones that are being wasted.
The real problem is the huge number of working iPhones that are too outdated to run modern software.
If we need a law, it is one that requires manufacturers to make a bootcamp equivalent for devices at the end of their software support cycle, so all the still working devices can continue to be useful.