Most of us smartphone users have damaged our screen, or have a device with a damaged battery that no longer holds charging. Repairing this common problem must be something made by producers for their customers. However, the world's apples are very careful to block this simple improvement from the public - and from our local workshop. Many producers refuse to sell replacement parts or software repair, forcing independent solutions to switch to eBay, or other third party providers.

Making a worse problem, the company increasingly uses software keys to prevent the parts that you can get from working well. For example, Apple mobile phone repairing parts programmed their device to send a persistent error message if you use anything except Apple for certain improvements, while taking important features from telephone users. Tony Heupel, owner of Itech iPhone MacBook Repair, has repaired Apple's device in San Diego for 15 years.

"Every year Apple's cellphones and laptops are increasingly difficult to fix. With every new telephone they introduce, we lose the function or other improvement abilities, "said Tones. "I watched the garage around me falling like a flies. Either we get the right to improve laws in books or businesses like me will be lost. " With both of them refuse to sell spare parts and place software restrictions, manufacturers move to control more repair markets. When the manufacturer is one only the choice to be improved, they can fill your arms and legs, or encourage you to continue to improve to their latest model whether custom phone case your cellphone has many lives left.

Consumers and small businesses throughout the country have called for changes - bored with their right to improve what is detained by producers whose own interests are to make you buy new devices. In response, Apple has recently released a self-improvement program that makes the original Apple section and tools available for consumers so that they can repair their own devices. Before you are too excited, this program has too many cheap phone parts obstacles to be practical.

Buying spare parts and renting the same equipment by bringing it back to Apple repair, even though you have to do work. Each section is also given a code to work on one particular device, which means that independent workshops cannot store spare parts, making this program impractical for small businesses. Restrictions on who can improve general products more than just a threat to local businesses. Expensive for consumers and terrible for this planet, by throwing around 49,900 cellphones xiaomi replacement parts per day.

Nathaniel Miller, President of the San Dimas non -profit hero deserves help, works to ensure the old device goes to veterans, and not a local landfill. "We have improved and contributed 5,000 digital devices to give the technology veterans they need to get education, benefits, job training, and more," Miller said. "But Apple tries to lock us from the device, take a computer or $ 1,000 phone and turn it into a paper redeemer, a garbage."

We can reverse this system by giving people what they need to fix the device they already have. That is the purpose of "the right to improve" the Senate Bill 983, waiting for now at Sacramento. The proposed reform will require producers to sell spare parts and tools, and make service manuals available to prevent monopoly repair. If we want to fix what we have and preserve local workshops on the main roads, we must stop waiting and graduated to improve this year. Madison Dennis is a community organizer with Calpirg, a public interest advocate in all states.