{"id":17231,"date":"2017-02-16T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T20:46:19","slug":"apple-fighting-new-right-to-repair-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/apple-fighting-new-right-to-repair-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Fighting New &ldquo;Right to Repair&rdquo; Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/02\/15\/apple-nebraska-right-to-repair\/\">Ben Lovejoy<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13673976\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2017\/02\/15\/apple-nebraska-right-to-repair\/\"><p>Apple is fighting &lsquo;right to repair&rsquo; legislation which would give consumers and third-party repair shops the legal right to purchase spare parts and access service manuals. The state of Nebraska is holding a hearing on the proposed legislation next month, and <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/source-apple-will-fight-right-to-repair-legislation\"><em>Motherboard<\/em><\/a> reports that Apple will be formally opposing the bill.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Repair.org hopes that getting a single state to pass a right to repair bill will result in manufacturers giving in, citing the precedent of similar legislation in the car industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/error-53\/\">Error 53<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lovejoy (Hacker News): Apple is fighting &lsquo;right to repair&rsquo; legislation which would give consumers and third-party repair shops the legal right to purchase spare parts and access service manuals. The state of Nebraska is holding a hearing on the proposed legislation next month, and Motherboard reports that Apple will be formally opposing the bill.[&#8230;]Repair.org [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-08T20:46:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"f9f1dd5d-33b1-43d3-921c-cc760f1f9cd2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-08T20:46:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-fHdXTOxQ9OSHMx2Dx-c0g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,31,209,30,1860],"class_list":["post-17231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-unauthorized-repair"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17242,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions\/17242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}