Chapter 19 — The Bill Comes Due
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| 1 | Figure 19.1 — BMW Connected Drive Portal Displaying Front Seat Heating as a Subscription Service carthrottle.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 2 | Figure 19.2 — The modules of the Fairphone 3 mounted on a display commons.wikimedia.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 3 | Figure 19.4 — The John Hancock Vitality program — Apple Watch and life-insurance premium discounts conditioned on activity goals johnhancock.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 4 | Figure 19.5 — The anonymized Strava activity Le Monde used to triangulate the Charles de Gaulle's position in the eastern Mediterranean lemonde.fr | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 5 | tangibles-book.com tangibles-book.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 6 | Anis Heydari, "Sick of subscriptions? Heated seats in cars the latest cost to test consumers' limits," CBC News, July 23, 2022 cbc.ca | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 7 | requires portable-device batteries to be removable and replaceable by users with commercially available tools from 18 February 2027, with a possible "professional replacement" exemption for waterproof devices whose batteries retain at least 80% capacity after 1,000 cycles. An iPhone battery… ifixit.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 8 | Apple's iPhone 16 (September 2024) introduced an electrically released adhesive that debonds with current, in advance of the rule; see "Hands-on With New iPhone's Electrically-Released Adhesive," hackaday.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 9 | Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 (the EU Battery Regulation), adopted July 2023 eur-lex.europa.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 10 | Apple's "parts pairing" extends to displays, cameras, batteries, and biometric modules; replacing a paired component without manufacturer authorization triggers a "Non-Genuine" warning and, in some iPhone generations, disables features. The most-cited case: iPhone 13 displays were serialized to the… 9to5mac.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 11 | In re Apple Inc. Device Performance Litigation (Case No. 18-MD-2827-EJD, N.D. Cal.) settled for up to $500 million in March 2020 over Apple's iOS 10.2.1 throttling of older iPhones with degraded batteries; payouts of approximately $92.17 per eligible owner began in January 2024 after appeals… smartphoneperformancesettlement.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 12 | A separate $113 million multistate-AG settlement followed in November 2020: see "Apple Agrees To Pay $113 Million To Settle 'Batterygate' Case Over iPhone Slowdowns," NPR, November 18, 2020 npr.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 13 | Insteon, an early Apple HomeKit partner, suspended its cloud services without warning on Friday, April 15, 2022, leaving customers' hubs cut off from the app, schedules, automations, and remote access; physical wall switches continued to operate. Executives reportedly scrubbed the company from… theregister.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 14 | and "Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less," Hackaday, April 25, 2022 hackaday.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 15 | In June 2022 a group of existing customers led by Ken Fairbanks bought the company's assets and restored service under a new $40/year subscription tier; see Stacey Higginbotham, "Insteon is BACK!" Stacey on IoT, June 10, 2022 staceyoniot.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 16 | Fairphone (Amsterdam, founded 2013) ships modular smartphones designed for user repair: removable batteries, screwed-in screens, individually replaceable cameras, and color-coded internal modules. The Fairphone 6 (2025) earned a 10/10 repairability score from iFixit, the highest possible – see… ifixit.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 17 | Company information at fairphone.com | Source Archive | 🟢 Archived |
| 18 | Framework (founded 2019) applies the same modular philosophy to laptops, with user-replaceable mainboards, ports, screens, and keyboards across the Framework Laptop 13 and 16 lines frame.work | Source Archive | 🟢 Archived |
| 19 | France's indice de réparabilité, introduced under the Anti-Waste Law (Loi 2020-105, February 10, 2020) and in force since January 2021, is a mandatory consumer-facing score from 0 to 10 indicating how easily a product can be repaired. It must be displayed at the point of sale, alongside the price… ecologie.gouv.fr | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 20 | At the EU level, the Common Charger Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2380), effective end-2024, standardizes USB-C across portable electronics eur-lex.europa.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 21 | The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1781) extends this approach, introducing delegated acts (rolling out 2024–2030) that will mandate minimum spare-parts availability and software-support periods eur-lex.europa.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 22 | In the US, right-to-repair laws for electronics are now active in several states, including New York (Digital Fair Repair Act, 2022), California (SB 244, 2023), Minnesota (Digital Fair Repair Act, 2023), and Colorado (HB 23-1011, 2023). A consolidated overview is available via PIRG pirg.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 23 | Directive (EU) 2019/771 on certain aspects concerning contracts for the sale of goods (the EU Sale of Goods Directive) eur-lex.europa.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 24 | For the 2023 memorandum of understanding, see Dan Charles, "John Deere vows to open up its tractor tech, but right-to-repair backers have doubts," NPR, January 10, 2023 npr.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 25 | The FTC, with the states of Illinois and Minnesota, sued Deere in January 2025 alleging the MoU's diagnostic-tool commitments had not been honored; the suit settled in April 2026 for $99 million ("John Deere agrees $99m right-to-repair settlement," The Register, April 9, 2026 theregister.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 26 | PIRG maintains a running history of the dispute at pirg.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 27 | "Russian troops in Melitopol plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine – to find they've been remotely disabled," CNN, May 1, 2022 edition.cnn.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 28 | "Ukrainian John Deere tractors stolen by Russia 'bricked'," The Register, May 2, 2022 theregister.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 29 | Open-protocol options that can survive a vendor's exit include Matter (Connectivity Standards Alliance csa-iot.org | Source Archive | 🟢 Archived |
| 30 | Open-protocol options that can survive a vendor's exit include Matter (Connectivity Standards Alliance), Zigbee (CSA), and Z-Wave (Z-Wave Alliance). Each is specified well enough for a third party to implement if the original vendor withdraws – a hedge that is engineered, not legal csa-iot.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 31 | and Z-Wave (Z-Wave Alliance z-wavealliance.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 32 | Suzanne Barlyn, "Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance," Reuters, September 19, 2018 reuters.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 33 | "Largest behaviour change study on physical activity – based on verified data – shows Vitality incentives combined with Apple Watch lead to significant and sustained increases in activity levels," Vitality Group / RAND Europe, October 17, 2018 vitalitygroup.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 34 | The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule (45 CFR Part 164) regulates "protected health information" held by health plans, healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses, and their business associates – not by direct-to-consumer device makers. The Genetic… | ⚪ Print source | |
| 35 | Marshall Allen, "Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You – And It Could Raise Your Rates," NPR, July 17, 2018 npr.org | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 36 | Mobile apps routinely embed third-party Software Development Kits (SDKs) for advertising and analytics. These libraries collect device identifiers, usage events, and sometimes precise location, and forward them to data brokers and ad networks as a byproduct of their advertising function. The… ftc.gov | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 37 | Kashmir Hill, "Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies," The New York Times, March 11, 2024 nytimes.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 38 | "A French Navy officer accidentally leaked the location of an aircraft carrier by logging his run on Strava," TechCrunch, March 20, 2026 techcrunch.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 39 | "Strava Exposes 519 UK Military Personnel at Nuclear Bases," the5krunner, April 6, 2026 the5krunner.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 40 | Concrete regulatory anchors for these levers: the FTC's settlement with Vizio (2017) on automatic content recognition disclosure ftc.gov | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 41 | the FTC's Flo Health settlement (2021) on period-tracker data sharing with Facebook and Google through embedded software libraries (also cited at footnote 16); California's Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) categories for "sensitive personal information," oag.ca.gov | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 42 | New York's proposed Health Information Privacy Act (S158B, currently before the legislature); and the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) eur-lex.europa.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 43 | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, "23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users," TechCrunch, December 4, 2023 techcrunch.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 44 | TTAM Research Institute – a California non-profit public-benefit corporation led by 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki – won the bankruptcy auction for substantially all of 23andMe's assets at $305 million in July 2025, after Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' earlier $256 million bid was reopened and Regeneron… paulweiss.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 45 | and Foley Hoag's analysis of the proceedings as a precedent for handling genetic data in bankruptcy foleyhoag.com | Source | 🟡 No archive |
| 46 | Regulatory anchors for these levers: GDPR Article 17 (the EU right to erasure), which binds the data controller regardless of corporate-form changes gdpr-info.eu | Source | 🟡 No archive |