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Apple Announces Self Service Repair Program, Starting With iPhone 12 and 13
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But we can take those official parts and get our friendly repair shop to do the hard work. This is great.
This is all kinda meaningless gesturing if availability of genuine parts to 3rd parties is near impossible to acquire as has been the case in the past.
Apple knows that only a fraction of 1% of Apple users care about it, so they got nothing to loose, plus this puts stop to all external parties who complain how Apple is anti repair movement!
Or.. Apple fixes it, actually recycles the old iPhone and parts and materials and nothing ends up in a landfill anyways?
I am not sure I agree.
If I can use a phone (and others do) for longer, less are needed to be manufactured. Those older phones are also not thrown away.
Net gain is less eco waste.
*shivers* wow, hell is feeling pretty cold down here right now
In your repair package, please find enclosed your roll of Apple Sticky Tape
That’s because Apple products are made obsolete with the help of DuPont. Fixing it won’t change that.
Curious how they’ll deal with people who are over confident and f**k it up
Replacing one thing instead of replacing the whole device.
This is a great step towards a more environmentally careful society.
I respect your views but I honestly don’t buy it, phones are still gonna be made no matter what I do with mine etc, and eco waste in my honest view isn’t a thing; it doesn’t damage the planet or world in any way, but I respect your views
Good. Even if The launch is far from perfect this is good. It is a step in the right direction. I've done numerous repairs on macs for years all without good manuals and sometimes proper tools. This is awesome.
This is a step up over the previous program, which seemed to be:
Step 1: Buy a new device
Step 2: Restore from iCloud
Step 3: There is no Step 3.
Step 1: Buy a new device
Step 2: Restore from iCloud
Step 3: There is no Step 3.
I’m sure it won’t make any difference at all but if you think it does then that’s good for you
A couple of ways, @Kylo83 –
1) Apple: "Following the repair, customers who return their used part for recycling will receive credit toward their purchase." – more reuse & recycling is always a good thing for the finite resources on our planet
2) Fewer individual journeys to Apple stores/authorised service centres (to take items in for repair, to collect repaired items) meaning less emissions – from predominantly fossil-fuel based vehicles – going into our planet's atmosphere. The sending of parts direct to customers likely has a lower carbon footprint, as multiple small parcels can be distributed by a single delivery truck, for example.
lol
Don't worry: if you f**k it up, you're responsible, and you'll pay for your mistakes.
Quite logical, if you ask me.
Respectfully I too disagree.
Where would be the $$ in Apple, or others producing phones that people don't buy?
Eco waste is a thing. I personally don't want lead, or other plastics, VOC, and carcinogens in my water or food being leached from discarded electronic devices. But that is my opinion.
Prolly a combination of shock and excitement. This has long been their mission so they can see this as a step in that direction. But it's different. The heart of ifixit will still be their guidance which will compliment a manual. The repair manual won't replace them.