News Summary

• By early 2025, every US state had introduced some form of right-to-repair legislation.
• In Europe, the EU Right to Repair Directive is set to come into force at the end of July.
• Theoretically, we should be starting to see repairability and parts availability trickle down into the tech we buy.
• But it's one thing to repair a laptop or even a phone.
• Wearables — from the laudably compact to the fiendishly tiny — are a whole other degree of difficulty.