Why Right to Repair Is Hard, Even for Companies That Want It

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Thanks to Storyblocks for sponsoring this video! Download unlimited stock media at one set price with Storyblocks: https://storyblocks.com/designtheory BECOME A PATRON: https://www.patreon.com/JohnMauriello Sign up to learn more about the design book that we're going to publish: https://www.studioello.com/mail Check out my online industrial design course, Form Fundamentals: https://bit.ly/335vsqO CHECK OUT MY OTHER SOCIALS: DISCORD: https://discord.gg/hFw55nh TWITTER: https://twitter.com/john_mauriello IG: https://www.instagram.com/mauriellodesign/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauriellojohn/ All content directed, written and (partially) edited by John Mauriello. John Mauriello has been working professionally as an industrial designer since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts. Main video edit by Brad Heath. This video is about why designing repairable products is not as simple as you think. Many people think it doesn't happen because of corporate greed. While that is certain one reason, there are many other far less malicious reasons for the lack of repairability we see in our devices. Main Works Cited: The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own Buy the book here: https://amzn.to/3ZnpfzS Other works were cited but in a smaller capacity. When referenced, they are displayed in the bottom left corner of the video. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Misaligned Incentives 4:13 Storyblocks sponsor 5:23 Deeply Entrenched Corporate Structures 6:40 Customer Expectations 9:30 Planned Obsolescence 10:13 Thin, Sleek, and Minimalistic=Quality??? 13:34 Repairability and Backwards Compatibility 16:34 Product Architecture 19:13 Increased Complexity 22:09 Laws 25:53 What Should We Do???