Apple vs. the Right To Repair (bloombergview.com)

retroworks writes: Bloomberg columnist Adam Minter takes on Apple's "Error 53 Code" and the precedents being challenged by the Right To Repair movement. Apple claims that bricking the phone if it's repaired by a non-Apple certified repair shop protects you from tampering with, say, the fingerprint scanner. But the column documents how the number of "certified" repair shops is under attack. If you can't open it, do you really own it?

Comments

Re: If you can't open it, do you really own it?

[oh_my_080980980]

What fucking trade off. This assume people know this will happen. Base on reports, they don't and they're fucking pissed when it does. So stop.

Re:It really is about security, not repair

[phayes]

So, all recent Android phones come with a functional equivalent to TouchID? Ah, no, they don't and even when they start adding them, it's going to be the usual dogs breakfast of incomplete, incompatible and mostly broken implementations. But you'll be so happy knowing that you can replace parts with clones that claim to be the same and never worry about it -- because we all know that couldn't make Android's security any worse.