The Maker's Bill of Rights
Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.
Cases shall be easy to open.
Batteries should be replaceable.
Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.
Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong and not making special tools available is even worse.
Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.
Components, not entire sub-assemblies, shall be replaceable.
Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.
Circuit boards shall be commented.
Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.
Standard connecters shall have pinouts defined.
If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.
Screws better than glues.
Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.
Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.
Metric or standard, not both.
Schematics shall be included.
Hmm.. this should be the case of all our owned electronic devices.. but sadly it is not. The iPad fails every single one of these points, yet people still buy the device. Why? As consumers we need make a stand on what we buy and vote with our money. New devices should be more user friendly to the general public. The one thing the irks me about apple products , like the iPad, are they charge through USB, but you have to have a apple usb adaptor. Why can't it follow the standard like most other devices?
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