In this case, it is a law or bill that is spreading throughout the United States, rapidly despite having strong opposition from electronic device manufacturers. We can say that with this law the ban would be opened so that repairs to products of any brand could be carried out outside the official technical services and even by the affected users themselves.
This can be a serious problem for many large companies that have an active repair business in this area and only they have the manuals, information and diagrams of their products and parts, to solve a possible breakdown or failure of the device. If this law is approved, which has already been proposed in 18 states of the country (the last California), it could mean a before and after in the repair system, but the strong opposition from companies such as Microsoft, Google or Apple, among many other companies they make this law seem far away.
You have to think that it is a double-edged sword allow a user like you or me to repair a smartphone for example. We do not know the technique or we do not have the necessary tools to be able to carry out a home repair no matter how many manuals they put on the table. Obviously many of you are qualified or have enough skills to carry out a repair, but the vast majority are not.
Logically large companies will need to provide the necessary parts for repairs in addition to the disassembly manuals themselves, so it would be something positive and negative as we discussed earlier. Changing a battery in an iPhone or Samsung can be a simple task for many or very complicated for others. It remains to be seen what will end up with this new bill and whether it is finally approved or not ...