My Mum recently upgraded her phone and tablet. I now have an iPhone 7 and and iPad mini that both are physically fine (with the exception of battery wear). The problem? They’re no longer supported by Apple. I can’t even sign into them. I’m okay with a company deciding not to support old hardware but I think they should be forced to remove any “security measures” which stop us being able to replace the software with an open source alternative. Not just a #righttorepair but a #RightToReuse
Similarly I have some IoT devices from a company that went into receivership. They’re running embedded Linux even. Can I replace the software without a JTAG debugger? No. For goodness sake. Locked out of my own shit. #RightToReuse