Excellent news. Now it's time for 'design for repair'.
The warranty extension is a great idea but there will be devils in the details for sure, just as there are at the moment.
The first industry to get this treatment will probably be the textile industry with requirements for longer lasting garments.
Another great move, away from the 'use and wash three times' and throw away.
Actually if just the minimum warranty period was extended significantly it would probably lead to easier to repair designs because the manufacturers would be eating more of the cost themselves.
Not necessarily. If the warranty period was extended, then manufacturers will design their products to last longer, so that there's less chance of them needing repair in the warranty period. Which is one of the reason why a lot of electronics are not easy to repair. They were designed to last longer at the cost of not being easily repairable. It would be backward thinking for a vender to design electronics to be easy repairable, to lessen the cost of warranty work. When the right way to think is to design electronics to last longer, to lessen the need for any warranty work at all.
I much rather have a smartphone that is not easy to repair but will most likely not need repairing during its useful life, than one that is easy to repair but will most likely need some repair work during its useful life. Except for replacing batteries and LCD. The two most common repair work that should always be easy.
Extended warranties are very high profit margin sales for a reason. The products they cover were designed to last longer than the extended warranty period.
Plus, with electronics like smartphones, about the only repairs done under warranty by the venders, are the ones that are already easy, like replacing the screen or battery. Nearly all other repairs work result in them replacing the smartphone with an already refurbished one. Then the one needing repaired is done by the company that actually assembled the smartphone and then returned to be sold as refurbished.
Repairable products are also more durable. Or do you have evidence that says otherwise?
It is customary to offer evidence of your own claims before demanding it of an imagined response.
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