Your Tech Stuff Is Getting Slightly More Repairable

Last year, the US Public Interest Research Group—a nonprofit that actively campaigns for right-to-repair laws in the US—released its first repairability scorecard. Perhaps not surprisingly, US PIRG assigned some of the world’s most prominent tech makers a giant “F” or near-failing grade. Now, US PIRG has released its second annual repairability scorecard, grading “which manufacturers are designing devices to last and which are ‘Failing the Fix,’” the group says. Lucas Gutterman, the director for US PIRG’s “Designed to Last” campaign, attributes that mostly to the increasing availability of repair manuals—the documentation that average consumers or independent repair technicians would need in order to fix their gadgets. For the latest report, US PIRG pulled data for 330 different devices manufactured by eight tech companies: HP, Dell, Apple, Acer, Lenovo, Asus, Microsoft, and Samsung.