Quite the opposite, had the government not kept the cable monopolist from also becoming an ISP, we'd now have one ISP because it's prohibitively expensive to become a competitor.
Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt Adolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it
The problem here is that it's incumbent vs incumbent. And in this struggle, I side with the one that actually allows competition to arise.
What you're dealing with is the same we had in Europe in some countries where monopolists that owned the cable networks (that the taxpayer paid for) were privatized. Those countries where they were forced to split the company into one that owns the cable and one that provides ISP services prospered and now have some rather stiff competition between ISPs that the cable-owning ex-monopolist has to sell at the same conditions as their former "other half", while countries where that ex-monopolist was allowed to own the cable AND become an ISP now struggle because they, of course, tried to make it near impossible to use those cables by competing providers.
I'm lucky. My internet is affordable, and should my provider try anything funny I'm gone before he's done making me some offer to stay because I have a few others to choose from, in the middle of nowhere, not in some large city.
We do not need the return of the copy/pasted cargo-cult programming webpages. They were cute back in the day but today, they would present a security nightmare.
Wanna make a webpage? Effin' learn how to do it right! It's not 1990 anymore, there's literally thousands of pages dedicated to teaching you how to make your own webpage, from the basics of HTML to the intimate details of JSON and REST APIs.
It is all there. And for free. There is literally no need anymore to copy/paste code, fiddle with it and hope that it doesn't break despite not even remotely understanding what it does. Yes, I can understand that cutting corners and being lazy is comfy, but I also understand that these are the pages that cause enormous headaches because people not understanding why something works are also the people who create the worst security problems.
The only thing that really scares me is that these are the people that make legally binding decisions about IT, and they prove again and again that they are by no means qualified to make such decisions.
But that's the responsibility of the person owning the device, then. You can go to a licensed vendor and if they do something shady, rest assured Apple will deal with them in ways you couldn't even imagine. That costs more, but they carry Apple's seal of approval and Apple certifies that these vendors are ok, they're honest and that they only use Apple-original parts. I could well see Apple do some mystery shopping to ensure that they toe the line or they get ripped a new one, which will be new ones when the lawyers are done with them.
Or you could go to Honest Henry's Half Hour hPhone Hut and get a cheap repair. Of course, only Henry will guarantee you that everything's fine with your phone and he will promise you that he didn't look at your porn pics and puts them on Photobucket. And if anything goes bad with your iPhone and Henry's shop goes poof because he used cheap parts and is too stupid to even open an iPhone without killing it, well, that's your risk.
Or you can just get the part from Aliexpress and try the repair yourself. Hey, maybe you'll be the next Henry!
In the end, all those options should be available to the customer. And only the customer should have the right to decide what he wants. Pay for the convenience and security that an authorized and trained professional offers, pay for a cheap side-street job or try it yourself. Your decision, your risk.
Guess then they'll stop selling phones 'round these areas soon.
Alternatively they COULD label the batteries and tell people what way to put the battery in, because people around here are also expected to be able to read. So no lawsuit for you if you're too dumb to follow instructions. But the instructions have to be there.
Why do I suddenly have to think of the cyberpunk conversation my troll had with the dwarf?
"Who're you calling?" "Pizza delivery." "What? You're always thinking with your stomach!" "Huh? You just said we need a car nobody would miss that doesn't look out of place in a B-area. And they deliver pizza with the car!"
More likely we'll see some sort of design where you can easily switch one component for another to make it repairable for Europe while keeping the rest of the world in the trash loop.
Ah, no, you got that wrong. On the surface it looks like a security flaw, actually what it means is that it allows security researchers easy access to knowing this critical design flaw and tell people to avoid this turd like the plague if they give at least half a shit about their data.
But that's true for every phone out there. With maybe the exception that nobody gives half a fuck whether you have the latest alphabet soup attachment on yours.
Fortunately you can put those solar panels where crops don't grow. Actually, putting the solar panels in the desert and those wind whirlies onto the hill tops is a pretty good idea, while putting your crops there is less so.
Did the music deliver what people want? If so, good. If not, they'll switch to something else. Who gives a fuck who made it? Do I care what carpenter made my table? What I care is whether the legs are equal in length and the surface is flat but not for the name of its maker.
You think anyone gives a shit about the RIAA. Think again.
The only reason is that it's simply more convenient to open YouTube and listen to whatever you want to listen to than to download something and hope it's not some asshole disguising gay porn as some Rhianna video. YouTube quickly takes care of such problems.
The only reason people reach for "official" sources is that the price is the same but the quality is higher. That's pretty much all.
According to the laws around here it would be Apple's fault if putting the battery in the wrong way makes your phone go up in flames, yes. Because of a different law that has nothing to do with any "right to repair", but still, yes.
Aunt Tilly gets to watch TV shows telling her about the woes of online bad boys that steal your bank from your phone. All Ahmad has to do is to put a big sign in his window that he can keep the bad boys away.
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Quite the opposite, had the government not kept the cable monopolist from also becoming an ISP, we'd now have one ISP because it's prohibitively expensive to become a competitor.
Never end a good war that drives your economy prematurely.
Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builts a bonfire, Enrico plays with it
Hoes don't care for sweet words and enticement, they want money. So unless you throw some money at the whores in Washington, they won't listen.
The problem here is that it's incumbent vs incumbent. And in this struggle, I side with the one that actually allows competition to arise.
What you're dealing with is the same we had in Europe in some countries where monopolists that owned the cable networks (that the taxpayer paid for) were privatized. Those countries where they were forced to split the company into one that owns the cable and one that provides ISP services prospered and now have some rather stiff competition between ISPs that the cable-owning ex-monopolist has to sell at the same conditions as their former "other half", while countries where that ex-monopolist was allowed to own the cable AND become an ISP now struggle because they, of course, tried to make it near impossible to use those cables by competing providers.
I'm lucky. My internet is affordable, and should my provider try anything funny I'm gone before he's done making me some offer to stay because I have a few others to choose from, in the middle of nowhere, not in some large city.
We do not need the return of the copy/pasted cargo-cult programming webpages. They were cute back in the day but today, they would present a security nightmare.
Wanna make a webpage? Effin' learn how to do it right! It's not 1990 anymore, there's literally thousands of pages dedicated to teaching you how to make your own webpage, from the basics of HTML to the intimate details of JSON and REST APIs.
It is all there. And for free. There is literally no need anymore to copy/paste code, fiddle with it and hope that it doesn't break despite not even remotely understanding what it does. Yes, I can understand that cutting corners and being lazy is comfy, but I also understand that these are the pages that cause enormous headaches because people not understanding why something works are also the people who create the worst security problems.
And maybe that we don't create more of them.
Then I guess they should fire those people and hire better ones. The average 10 year old knows better than that.
Story #36/2017...
The only thing that really scares me is that these are the people that make legally binding decisions about IT, and they prove again and again that they are by no means qualified to make such decisions.
In Dubay, they call that a cottage.
But that's the responsibility of the person owning the device, then. You can go to a licensed vendor and if they do something shady, rest assured Apple will deal with them in ways you couldn't even imagine. That costs more, but they carry Apple's seal of approval and Apple certifies that these vendors are ok, they're honest and that they only use Apple-original parts. I could well see Apple do some mystery shopping to ensure that they toe the line or they get ripped a new one, which will be new ones when the lawyers are done with them.
Or you could go to Honest Henry's Half Hour hPhone Hut and get a cheap repair. Of course, only Henry will guarantee you that everything's fine with your phone and he will promise you that he didn't look at your porn pics and puts them on Photobucket. And if anything goes bad with your iPhone and Henry's shop goes poof because he used cheap parts and is too stupid to even open an iPhone without killing it, well, that's your risk.
Or you can just get the part from Aliexpress and try the repair yourself. Hey, maybe you'll be the next Henry!
In the end, all those options should be available to the customer. And only the customer should have the right to decide what he wants. Pay for the convenience and security that an authorized and trained professional offers, pay for a cheap side-street job or try it yourself. Your decision, your risk.
Guess then they'll stop selling phones 'round these areas soon.
Alternatively they COULD label the batteries and tell people what way to put the battery in, because people around here are also expected to be able to read. So no lawsuit for you if you're too dumb to follow instructions. But the instructions have to be there.
That's why you go to honest Ahmad.
Why do I suddenly have to think of the cyberpunk conversation my troll had with the dwarf?
"Who're you calling?"
"Pizza delivery."
"What? You're always thinking with your stomach!"
"Huh? You just said we need a car nobody would miss that doesn't look out of place in a B-area. And they deliver pizza with the car!"
More likely we'll see some sort of design where you can easily switch one component for another to make it repairable for Europe while keeping the rest of the world in the trash loop.
Ah, no, you got that wrong. On the surface it looks like a security flaw, actually what it means is that it allows security researchers easy access to knowing this critical design flaw and tell people to avoid this turd like the plague if they give at least half a shit about their data.
I would not like it here or there.
I would not like it anywhere.
I do not like the iPhone look
I do not like it, Timmy Cook.
(and yes, that third line works better with Macbook, but sadly they didn't bring out a new model in the past decade and I grew tired waiting for it)
But that's true for every phone out there. With maybe the exception that nobody gives half a fuck whether you have the latest alphabet soup attachment on yours.
Fortunately you can put those solar panels where crops don't grow. Actually, putting the solar panels in the desert and those wind whirlies onto the hill tops is a pretty good idea, while putting your crops there is less so.
Did the music deliver what people want? If so, good. If not, they'll switch to something else. Who gives a fuck who made it? Do I care what carpenter made my table? What I care is whether the legs are equal in length and the surface is flat but not for the name of its maker.
Wait, pay? Who pays for music?
Kids these days, do they have too much money?
You think anyone gives a shit about the RIAA. Think again.
The only reason is that it's simply more convenient to open YouTube and listen to whatever you want to listen to than to download something and hope it's not some asshole disguising gay porn as some Rhianna video. YouTube quickly takes care of such problems.
The only reason people reach for "official" sources is that the price is the same but the quality is higher. That's pretty much all.
According to the laws around here it would be Apple's fault if putting the battery in the wrong way makes your phone go up in flames, yes. Because of a different law that has nothing to do with any "right to repair", but still, yes.
In an information age? Huge.
Aunt Tilly gets to watch TV shows telling her about the woes of online bad boys that steal your bank from your phone. All Ahmad has to do is to put a big sign in his window that he can keep the bad boys away.
Pest AND cholera in a neat package. What more could you ask for?