HMD Global, the parent company of Nokia, has just announced its first phone that was designed from the very beginning to be easy to repair.
The right to repair regulations are changing the way phone makers build their products, and Nokia says the new G22 is a pioneer on this front.
The mobile device has been developed to allow owners to perform simple repairs at home, all using manuals and guides provided by experts in this area. The company has teamed up with iFixit, which everybody knows mostly for their teardowns, to provide not only repair guides but also parts for critical repairs.
For example, the G22 will allow you to replace a battery at home, and if you’ll want to replace a shattered display, that’s going to be possible as well.
The headline is a quote from within the report. Apple led the repair nightmare with a fuck you, buy the new model approach to things. Samsung, similar, but in Korean.
And - Of course the right-to-repair movement came from the EU. Our government, "Yes, Apple is right, and the new model has added features," with one such feature known as regulatory capture. They had to buy regulatory capture, by buying politicians, but the firm's cost/benefit analysis said buy as many politicians as needed, even one extra.