Nothing in the rules suggests that implanted Comms and Decks are so easily accessible as others in this thread have suggested. Mainly b/c nothing in the rules covers implanted Comms and Decks specifically in any regard. But it's pretty damned Munchkin to point at the lack of very case specific rulings and come back saying "Well, the rules don't say that I can't wield an Apache helicopter in each hand!!!"
Just as nothing in the rules suggests that implanted Comms and Decks are any harder to repair than regular ones.
Also, piss off with straw man munchkin arguments. I'm not arguing anything of the sort, I just find it unreasonable that for something a regular as repairing Matrix damage to a Cyberdeck you basically need a cyberware clinic to take the thing out, THEn use Hardware skill to repair THEN basically needing a clinic to put it back in again.
You are absolutely arguing precisely that situation. Everyone in this thread is saying that in the absence of very case specific rulings, they're going to opt for the more convenient interpretation which benefits them the most in every way possible.
You're saying that it's just as easy for you to change the battery or SIM card on your cell phone lying on the desk... as it is for someone to remove an implanted Commlink buried inside their head by a cybersurgeon, so they can do the same thing.
Are the two devices comparable once they're both laid out on the table? Of course they are, they're both Commlinks.
Are they equally accessible at any given moment of the day or night? Absolutely not!
If it took a Cybersurgeon to get it in there, it's not just going to come out spring loaded at the push of a button. And if it did, it would take away any benefit to having it inside your head to begin with. Nothing in the book says anything about a DNI-only accessible eject button (which someone suggested earlier as a security precaution against forced removal). And even if there were such a feature, we're talking about repairing a device after it's been bricked... when it ceases to acknowledge DNI or any other form of interface. So there needs to be an external means of removing it if anyone is going to start making repairs. And if there is an external means, then it's only a Google search away for someone to find out how to take it out. You can,after all, look up all sorts of things like how to Root your smartphone, or how to factory default a router and what the default user name and passwords will be afterwards.
If someone kidnaps you and discovers you have a Comm inside your head, they're going to do a quick Matrix search to see what the manual says about how to extract it (tweak their nose up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right...) and they're going to take it away. Unless you treat it like a real implant, which would require surgery to access and remove. Convenient access is going to be convenient for you and for the guy taking it away from you. Complex access is going to make it safer, but also harder to modify later on. That's the trade-off.