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Technically true, but only technically. The near-totality of digital wristwatches other than smartwatches use silver oxide coin-cell batteries, with a solid majority de facto standardizing on the SR626SW.

Dude, that G-Shock watch is bulky rubber bumpers around a sealed steel inner case. Your objection is nonsensical. The electronic components of the watch are small enough that it's easy to insulate them from the steel case. The electronic components of a phone are much, much bulkier. This is...

Phone nerds complain endlessly about the loss of replaceable batteries in the pursuit of thin phones, but if you take a step back and think about it, what actually killed replaceable batteries was the desire for waterproof phones. And the thing is -- while I mocked that feature as absurd when it...

Third party repair is almost entirely a post-warranty matter, though, and it's entirely reasonable to say that warranty service has to be provided by certified pros -- that's how warranties in general work.

In an amusing reflection, Kytch is now suing Taylor for “copyright infringement”, arguing that Taylor isn’t allowed to reverse engineer Kytch’s product even though Kytch’s product works entirely off of reverse engineering and piggybacking on Taylor’s product. Kytch is also suing for breach of...

And here we see the total disingenuousness of repair-ists: the examples you name have absolutely nothing to do with mobile phones in any way, shape, or form. When it comes to consumer mobile phones, what the repair crowd is specifically demanding is the imposition of (absurd) government...

I think it’s entirely reasonable, because it’s 100% the norm in software development. Just as Microsoft does not arbitrarily restrict current versions of Windows from running on older computers which *can* run it but not very smoothly, so also does Apple generally allow iPhones to be updated to...

This is the part they’re trying to preempt discussion of by falsely framing it as a “right”. Market competition doesn’t “work” for repair-ists because the vast, overwhelming majority of consumers care about features which are best achieved by cutting out easy repairability. So what we really...

At the end of the day, “right to repair” is at best an ideological position similar to open source software, only they’re trying to use government authority to forcibly compel acceptance of their ideas rather than actually compete in the marketplace of ideas. Given that attempts at highly...

I'll take an evil American corporation over an evil Chinese spy front which doubles down with obnoxious self-righteousness any day. Besides, there's no such right in the Constitution. You can argue that it's a more equitable market setup, but the idea that it's an *inherent right* is doing a...