hey everybody so my testimony in
Maryland at least in the House version
of the bill was pretty awful I think I
did decent in the Senate version with
the two minutes I had but the best
testimony by far in my opinion was from
Sam he is a moderator on my discord
server and has been for about a year now
he showed up to this maryland hearing
and i think he just knocked it out of
the park with the hundred 19 seconds
that they give you to testify before an
annoying buzzer goes off so let's play
sam's testimony since i think it was
again the best of all the testimonies
given hello my name is Sam Munster I'm
16 years old I'm a junior in high school
I have run an electronics repair
business in Washington DC since I was 12
I'm here today because right to repair
is very important to ensuring the
longevity of our electronics has become
a bigger part of our lives
I believe Jessa and the other panel
mentioned the software locks that Apple
has been putting in place on these like
the batteries on the iPhone 11s and the
newer models Apple I actually have a
quote here from Apple that they
responded to this saying it's unsafe for
people other than Apple Authorized
service providers to replace their
batteries I've been replacing batteries
and not in iPhones since I was 12 I'm
still here today got an iPhone right
here you can just pull this it's you
literally there's some screws in here
you take the screen off you pull some
tabs out and the battery comes out I
don't see how that's unsafe they also
many manufacturers like the management
before they would they won't give us
electrical schematics they say it's like
an intellectual property issue and
giving us access to that information
would compromise their intellectual
property I don't really think that's a
valid argument I can make that schematic
if I look at the device and go around
for several hours or the multimeter
probing around figuring out where stuff
goes also a lot of companies have shown
that that's not an intellectual property
issue this is an electrical schematic
that I found tucked into the bottom of
my Bosch dishwasher while I was fixing
some electrical wires the other day
after a rat chewed through them
so this electrical could this piece of
paper helped me fix that dishwasher for
with an 80 cent piece of wire and a 20
dollar drain hose as opposed to paying
the 450 dollars that we were quoted by
the Bosch Factory
service technician if I were able to get
parts or schematics like this for things
like this I also repair motherboards
just to taught me how to repair
motherboards I went to her class if I
were able to get those schematics for an
iphone like this I would be able to keep
hundreds more devices out of a landfill
and keep consumers from having to spend
thousands of dollars on new devices I
encourage a favor report and I thank you
for your time so this panel see none
thank you all for coming
I could I also add I would I would also
like a favorable report all right thank
you all very much that concludes the
testimony of the proponents we will now
move to the opposition