Comment by bjowen

They make a worthwhile distinction for ICT devices, which definitely have all those characteristics for miniaturisation. But that’s not the end of the right-to-repair story - glib example, but plenty of toasters end up in landfill, and there’s nothing complex or miniaturised about them. The market that delivers a new replacement for these things for a cost that is the same order of magnitude as a repair would be basically ensures that this will happen.