Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair

This dosen&#x27;t mean anything at all. Per SEC requirements, you just have to own $25,000 in stock (or $2,000 if you have held it &gt;3 years) in a company to put forward a non-binding shareholder resolution.<p>Union and environmental groups have been doing this for years with an assortment of companies, mostly to raise their own profile with the press.

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While it interesting if a majority or even +10% of shareholders called for this (as the title might hint), the fund calling for this doesnt have much ownership to throw around.

&quot;to avoid damage to the company’s reputation&quot;<p>To me, anything a company does to avoid damage to its reputation when it&#x27;s too late and has already become a matter of more profits or less profits, does indeed damage that company reputation anyway.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, that would still be a (very) good thing, but I wouldn&#x27;t expect any significant boost in Apple image, unless they pair it with a well crafted pro-environment PR campaign with the usual green hills, flowers, butterflies, happy families and possibly pink unicorns.

&gt; In particular, the resolution says that Apple making DIY and third-party repairs difficult contradicts the iPhone maker’s stance on the environment.<p>Anybody that reads Matt Levine&#x27;s <i>Money Stuff</i> column&#x2F;newsletter is surely wondering why they&#x27;re faffing about with shareholder resolutions, when they could just sue for securities fraud!<p>(I realise this is probably much cheaper.) I think it has to go to a vote(?) to even be.. enacted in its non-binding way, but is there any requirement that it actually sees much&#x2F;any discussion or response before that?

How about a right to privacy next?

No —- Tim Apple

I get some enjoyment thinking about how much Apple must annoy all the right-to-repair people every year as they solder more and more components into their logic boards.