(ANSA) – MILAN, 01 APR – Samsung and iFixit, a well-known portal of technicians and experts in the disassembly of hi-tech products, will launch a home repair program for Galaxy smartphones and tablets by the summer. The initiative will start in the United States with a first batch involving the Galaxy S20, S21 and Tab S7 Plus families. “We are working with Samsung to improve guides and spare parts,” iFixit CEO told The Verge. Kyle Wiens. The news follows a similar move by Apple, which at the end of 2021 had announced the Self Service Repair, with which it also allows individuals to access manuals, tools and spare parts for iPhones and other Apple products. Just iFixit had launched, in December, a program in collaboration with Microsoft, to simplify the repair of laptops of the Surface line. The change of course of the hi-tech greats is not causal but comes as the United States government is preparing to evaluate a new rule on the “right to repair”, the Freedom to Repair Act. After years of struggles by consumer rights organizations, including iFixit itself, the bipartisan bill proposed by Mondaire Jones and Victoria Spartz, representatives of the Democrats and Republicans respectively, aims to bring down the current copyright infringement that occurs when it is a private individual who disassemble and replace elements of a technological product and not a center authorized by the reference brand. The implications of Samsung’s choice are economic but also environmental. The scarcity of rare earths that smartphones are made of, the difficulty in disposing of such waste and the shortage of components from the supply chain impose a new course on the leading company in the mobile sector. (HANDLE).
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