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Originally Posted by rcentros
Could Washington citizens drive across the border, and buy a KO2 or Surface Pro from Oregon? Would this affect mail order?
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Who knows? I very much doubt it will be enacted, given that Amazon is more than threatening to move it's headquarters out of the state (dual headquarters? not likely for long). Beyond that, Washington State has too many tech jobs to be anything other than one of last states to pass something like this.
By the way, as I read it, it has little to do with batteries. This seems more important:
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Each original manufacturer of digital electronic products sold or used in the state must make available for purchase by owners and independent repair providers all diagnostic repair tools incorporating the same diagnostic, repair, and remote diagnostic capabilities that the original manufacturer makes available to its own repair or engineering staff or any authorized repair provider.
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The bill does forbid making it "difficult or impossible" to replace the battery. But I think that, in context, this means difficult for someone who is experienced in repair of small electronic devices. In my own opinion, if there's a YouTube showing successful battery replacement, it isn't all that difficult. And there's nothing I can see that would make them manufacture the devices in a way that the waterproofing survives battery replacement. So I'm thinking that the manufacturers could argue that their batteries are already replaceable.