- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
The bill outlines three years for products costing $50 to $99.99 and seven years for products priced at $100 or more. The bill will cover electronics and appliances made and sold after July 1st, 2021.
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This sort of stuff is why I love living in California. I work in tech myself, but they never pay me those extra savings from cut corners, bad service, or environmental damage.
This is huge right?
yeah, this feels like a big heckin deal??
hopefully we can get this elsewhere, too
which feels like it might be easier if companies are already complying with this
which feels like it might be easier if companies are already complying with this
This is part of the California regulation strategy: California is the largest market in the country for many products. It’s often cheaper to make things to California standards for everyone than to run two different production lines or facilities or give up California altogether, so we get California approved and labeled things all across the US. It’s a nifty feature of the state.
It hasn’t work as well as it could in some cases like the everything can cause cancer labeling but yeah…
Like the EU, but on a national level
If California were to join the EU, it’d be the fifth largest state in the union, right after Spain.
So we’ll have to travel to California to repair our phones?
I just had it with a less than a year old Pixel 6a… the screen started to separate from the phone. So I chatted with support and their reply was:
We guarantee all of our hardware issues with a great policy.
except this issue which we don’t cover
When I told him sure, if you never want me to buy a pixel product again, be that way and mysteriously a policy exception could be made a few days later. sigh.
