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Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com)
A leaked internal document outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states. From a report: As Apple continues to fight legislation that would make it easier for consumers to repair their iPhones, MacBooks, and other electronics, the company appears to be able to implement many of the requirements of the legislation, according to an internal presentation obtained by Motherboard. According to the presentation, titled "Apple Genuine Parts Repair" and dated April 2018, the company has begun to give some repair companies access to Apple diagnostic software, a wide variety of genuine Apple repair parts, repair training, and notably places no restrictions on the types of repairs that independent companies are allowed to do. The presentation notes that repair companies can "keep doing what you're doing, with ... Apple genuine parts, reliable parts supply, and Apple process and training."
This is, broadly speaking, what right to repair activists have been asking state legislators to require companies to offer for years. "This looks to me like a framework for complying with right to repair legislation," Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and a prominent member of the right to repair movement, told me on the phone. "Right now, they are only offering it to a few megachains, but it seems clear to me that it would be totally possible to comply with right to repair."
This is, broadly speaking, what right to repair activists have been asking state legislators to require companies to offer for years. "This looks to me like a framework for complying with right to repair legislation," Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit and a prominent member of the right to repair movement, told me on the phone. "Right now, they are only offering it to a few megachains, but it seems clear to me that it would be totally possible to comply with right to repair."
We've only seen 84 pages of the Mueller report and not a single complete sentence.
I doubt that Mueller spent 300 pages writing "No Collusion!" like Moscow Donald having a Twitter meltdown on the toilet...
The Apple biosystem requires you replace your devices periodically. Opening them up to repair lets you buy non-Apple components, non-Apple batteries, and makes it highly likely you won't pay $10,000 for a computer or $1000 for a phone every two years.
Can they do it? Sure.
They have no economic incentive to do so.
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This was an express strategy for revenue generation along their repair/supply chain, obviously if they wanted to make it cheap/easy to upgrade or repair your mac, THEY COULD HAVE DONE SO - at a cost of billions in profits.
I guess the story is that there are documents proving this? Gee. Kind of a duh.
The Apple biosystem requires you replace your devices periodically.
Apple themselves said last year they expect people to be using devices longer and longer, which is why support for older OS's has stayed through multiple OS upgrades.
Apple's ecosystem in fact does the opposite, it keeps your device working as long as possible, til eventually maybe you want an upgrade.
I do think Apple should open up all companies to be able to get apple parts and manuals. But it's not like Apple is forcing people to buy new devices.
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I remember almost two decades ago in my college days that the campus bookstore which sold Apple products was also an authorized Apple repair center. Having setup their network equipment (and run down computers with viruses on them), I happen to see them repair a few products in the back room. The part came with a link to a website where they could view a step by step tear down of whatever it was. The document the site had was very detailed and showed every single screw, plate, cover, etc and how exactly to remove it, and in what order everything needed to be done. I remember thinking lego instructions were not this detailed. I asked the tech how long he had been fixing Apple products, and he told me that this was his first time working on that model, but he didn't need to know, it was all in the document.
So if they had these documents that long ago, why haven't they made them public? Oh, never mind, allowing only a few repair shops added to the premium mentality which allowed them to charge more for the products, and the Apple Care plans they pushed.
This doesn't mean that Apple has to make it easy to repair, think glued in batteries. As long as the costs for Apple to replace a few defective devices instead of repairing them themselves under warranty, is less than what Apple looses by not selling newer replacement products, Apple ( and other manufacturers ) have no incentive to make their products easy to repair. They just can't make it harder for others to repair than it is for themselves.
You live and learn, or you don't learn much.
You are constantly proven a lying faggot here, why continue?
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
Kavanaugh pretended his "Renate Alumnius" was a badge of honor, that "boofing" wasn't anal sex (it was, I was alive then and that was the slang) and "Devil's Triangle" wasn't a drinking game. It clearly is.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
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Why are there articles every day about a topic that 90+% of everyone doesn't care about? Does anyone know who is financing the "right to repair" PR and legislative agenda?
When it comes to tractors, 99.5% of people don't care about tractor repairs. But we get stories on Slashdot and Presidential candidates pandering about it.
It's very organized and strangely manipulative. Anyone know why?
I don't care about it much one way or the other, but I'm against the government bullying people on behalf of big companies who want to prevent you from doing repairs. And I'm against the government bullying big companies into producing tools and manuals to enable you to make repairs. Neither are necessary, so government should butt out.
I'm also against being manipulated by PR bullshit.
keep doing what you're doing, with ... Apple genuine parts, reliable parts supply, and Apple process and training.
Having an option to get genuine parts would be great, but I fully expect an aftermarket to be created with much cheaper options.
"Right now, they are only offering it to a few megachains, but it seems clear to me that it would be totally possible to comply with right to repair."
Up until a couple product releases from now, when "repair" becomes an obsolete concept. Seems like Apple would do its best to keep moving towards making its phones less openable in the interest of making them more waterproof.
We support right to repair, it makes perfect sense. Your crybaby faggot shit doesn't matter at all Kobitch. We'll do it anyway, you don't get a say. You're just an uneducated child anyway lol. Run along now.
Find some real problems to cry your little eyes out over.
You are constantly proven a lying faggot here, why continue?
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
Kavanaugh pretended his "Renate Alumnius" was a badge of honor, that "boofing" wasn't anal sex (it was, I was alive then and that was the slang) and "Devil's Triangle" wasn't a drinking game. It clearly is.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
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My question is: why does it matter?
Either they obey the law (once right-to-repair legislation is passed), or they suffer the consequences and risk bankruptcy and shareholder lawsuits. Pretty simple stuff, really.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
what about return part pricing and cpu + ram + MB + Storage as one unit in the imac pro even when cpu and ram is an socket.
Nobody asked you. We support right to repair, it makes perfect sense. Your crybaby faggot shit doesn't matter at all Kobitch. We'll do it anyway, you don't get a say. You're just an uneducated child anyway lol. Run along now.
Find some real problems to cry your little eyes out over.
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