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How manufacturers make it impossible to repair your electronics

How manufacturers make it impossible to repair your electronics By Irina Ivanova The right to repair movement Electronics makers this week are unveiling a slew of consumer gadgets designed to make life cleaner, safer, more comfortable, more entertaining and even more eco-friendly. But there s a downside, say consumer advocates: Most of the products are challenging, if not impossible, for most people to fix, and are likely to last just a few years before becoming e-waste. When you see a project demoed, you don t think about its lifecycle you don t think about what happens when the software updates stop coming, said Nathan Proctor, director of the Right to Repair Campaign for U.S. PIRG, a public-interest research group.

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