#LazyFedi

Saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwo3i1s_zKU

and was wondering, does China and Chinese companies see third party repair as:
- An ideological good
- Supporting it as competitive advantage?
- Just "what you do"?
- Something they not got around to restricting yet?

I mean, especially in the global South it feels like it coud be a big competitive advantage. Would losing sales in a growing market change John Deer's behaviour?

Anyone have any links or data?

#righttorepair

@pluralistic

@Tallish_Tom @pluralistic at least previously, it's all up-side for them. Domestically, ignore DRM-type restrictions on imports, apply economies of scale to make breaking them worthwhile, and then internationally can sell their solutions to others in the world willing and able to perform them at a more artisanal scale. China isn't really domestically set up to encourage a premium dealer-only, subscription-updates type model so chinese manufacturers don't need to design with that in mind.