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Apple Will Fight 'Right To Repair' Legislation (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Apple is planning to fight proposed electronics "Right to Repair" legislation being considered by the Nebraska state legislature, according to a source within the legislature who is familiar with the bill's path through the statehouse. The legislation would require Apple and other electronics manufacturers to sell repair parts to consumers and independent repair shops, and would require manufacturers to make diagnostic and service manuals available to the public. Nebraska is one of eight states that are considering right to repair bills; last month, Nebraska, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, Kansas, and Wyoming introduced legislation. Last week, lawmakers in Illinois and Tennessee officially introduced similar bills. According to the source, an Apple representative, staffer, or lobbyist will testify against the bill at a hearing in Lincoln on March 9. ATT will also argue against the bill, the source said. The source told me that at least one of the companies plans to say that consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire. So far, Nebraska is the only state to schedule a hearing for its legislation.
if they want to rent then landlord needs to repair it for free!
... except fuck Apple. Their whole business model seems to be planned obsolescence and non-repairability. Hey, just buy a new one!
Apple are a cult purchase for the masses. The truth is that they have been making excess profits for rather a long time and are no better and in some respects worse than other companies. They do not allow battery replacement because their designs sacrifice repair-ability in order to enhance the appearance of their devices. It also means that they make a fat profit on repairs. I hope they lose this court case as it will benefit the consumers they are gouging.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Maybe for the watch, but not for the phone. There's nothing glued in the iPhone other than the battery. The case has snap tabs and screws holding it together, and all the complex parts are fastened in place using screws. There's absolutely no good reason for the battery to be glued in there, either. They could just as easily:
It's the height of laziness to say, "We can't make it this small without holding everything together with glue." It isn't that they can't make them easy to repair, nor is it that it would make them much more expensive or bigger or anything else. The reality is that Apple doesn't want their products to be easy to repair.
I'll illustrate why this is the case with a story. My parents recently took their iPhone 5s to Apple for repairs because its battery life had turned to crap. Apple looked at the device and said that they couldn't repair it because the battery was bulged, and it would be dangerous to remove it (because it is glued in). They wanted... either two or three hundred dollars to replace what was approximately a $30 battery.
Why would Apple want to make it easy to replace that $30 battery when they can glue the battery in place and use that as an excuse to cheat their customers out of hundreds of dollars, then take the defective hardware, ship it somewhere, rip the battery out in spite of the safety concerns, glue a new one in, and make even more money selling that refurbished phone to some other poor sucker whose battery dared to swell up? No, the irreparability of these devices means big money for Apple and they know it. IMO, these laws can't come soon enough and don't go far enough.
It should be illegal to glue a battery into any device, period, full stop.
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That would require the use of screws, which would increase the thickness by a tenth of a milimeter. Marketing dept says that is not acceptable.
That part always confused me.
Cell phone company busts its ass to shave 2mm off the thickness of the phone.
I immediately put it in a case that's three times the size of the phone, because I don't want to risk breaking the thing that cost several hundred dollars.
Like I'm gonna notice the millimeters you shaved off?
You really don't know _anything_ about Apple, do you?
You're like that Clown above who claimed all early Apple Gear was unrepairable without special tools, when this _only_ applied to the first Macs, and contemporary Sony Trinitrons were the same way for the same reason- The CRT and the High Voltages associated with them. Some Apple gear, like the IIsi, had cases that just snapped on, or the 5200/6200 series, which had "The Works In A Drawer", that pulled out from the back with no tools needed.
The Apple II was _very_ expandable, including not only up to 8 expansion boards, but additional third-party Expansion Cases. Far more expandable than say anything from Atari.
The reason that the original Macs didn't have an "Expansion Slot" was that none were needed, and no boards were available anyway. Everything needed was already built in, including Sound, Printing, and Networking. This wasn't some garage built PC Clone that did _nothing_ out of the box. (Props to Osborne and Kaypro, though. But no Networking for them either.)
But as the original 128K Mac was showing its age, guess what, you didn't have to buy a new Machine, because it could be Factory upgraded to Mac Plus status, including a new back shell. (I _have_ one. I kept the old shell with the molded signatures.)
I'll give you the Lisa though, but it too could be Factory upgraded to Mac Plus status, and the last ones sold were. Actually, I take that back. Lisa had a GUI and a mouse. The only step up back then with a GUI and a mouse were the new Unix Workstations, and the odd Xerox entry. Microsoft was still in the theft stage at that point, and had nothing to offer.