Blog post by Katrin Meyer (Runder Tisch Reparatur), and Magdolna Molnár (BTU Cottbus) Everyone is talking about the repair vouchers “Saving resources should pay off!” Last year over 71,000 people, together with the Runder Tisch Reparatur, the Inkota Network, and many other supporting organizations, demanded a repair voucher from the German federal government. In order …
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Apple is notorious for its expensive official repairs, for the many limitations to its supply of spare parts to independent repairers and – increasingly – for the use of software as a barrier to repair.
The new iPhone 13 is no exception.
Today, the main barrier to repair remains the cost, often quite expensive compared to buying a new product.
In Germany and Austria, authorities are implementing repair bonuses to lower the cost of repair and make it more accessible.
Part pairing is an increasingly common practice used by manufacturers that could create major barriers to independent and self repair.
We talked to repair actors about the main threats of part pairing and what policymakers should do about it.
