California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone

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California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone
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The bill outlines three years for products costing $50 to $99.99 and seven years for products priced at $100 or more. The bill will cover electronics and appliances made and sold after July 1st, 2021.

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which feels like it might be easier if companies are already complying with this

This is part of the California regulation strategy: California is the largest market in the country for many products. It's often cheaper to make things to California standards for everyone than to run two different production lines or facilities or give up California altogether, so we get California approved and labeled things all across the US. It's a nifty feature of the state.

Like the EU, but on a national level

If California were to join the EU, it’d be the fifth largest state in the union, right after Spain.