Apple Distributing New Heated Display Removal Machine for iPhone 12 Repairs

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The right to repair-movement champions that everyone, including people with no hands, should have a right under the law, to buy any tool, part, plans, diagrams and instructions necessary to repair anything they own.

The only limitation they want to this right is if there is a direct, high probability of this creating safety problems. And even then they want the restrictions to only apply to those repairs and all other repairs to the same object should be allowed with the manufacturer providing everything necessary to do so.

I am not aware that this movement wants to limit repairs to companies or to certain products.

Let's say you buy this chair (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/renberget-swivel-chair-bomstad-black-50332238/) at IKEA. After 2 years one the handle that makes you lower/rise the chair. IKEA should then under force of law be required to sell a replacement handle and all tools and manuals to fix it. If the supporting frame (which the wheels are connected to) bends, again IKEA must allow replacement parts to be bought and all tools necessary to remove the sitting part of the chair to move it over to the new supporting steel frame.

Or do you disagree?

Yeah i disagree as it is easy to find parts for the chair and if i import parts that are not Ikea official they won't slap me with a lawsuit and have customs confiscate the parts (which happens in the Apple world).

 

[nikaru]

Like Apple sabotaging the installation of batteries on iPhone 8 and onwards? Hiding the adhesive tabs so as to make location and removal hazardous for the layman! Someone should start a class acton for this act of bastardary!

It is not about sabotaging. Devices should be engineered with the possibility of making small repairs without significant headaches. There are many waterproof devices (both electronic and mechanical) that dont rely on liters of adhesive to sustain the desirable IP rating. Mac and iOS devices are full of adhesive and special screws whose only purpose is to keep you out of the device guts. It is not a critic to Apple alone, many brands do this and for me personally, it is wrong. There are milions of tons of electronic waste generated each year only because it is too expensive to repair these devices. If these devices were engineered better and the manufacturers have offered repair manuals, spare parts and tools we probably can avoid a significant part of this electronic waste.

 

[Septembersrain]

Meanwhile all I hope for is that they won't force me to update my iOS when I get a battery change. I'm paying them for AppleCare+, yet they can control my decisions to that extent?

 

[Eagle1337]

What an ignorant comment. You do realize there are other companies then apple that are perfectly capable of doing repairs on advanced electronics? Look at some of Louis Rossmann's videos on youtube to get an understanding what this is about (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w) His videos are also entertaining and educational to watch when he troubleshoots mac hardware.

This isn't about making Joe Schmoe being able to repair his phone, but other professional companies (then Apple) to perform repairs on Apple equipment as these guys have a hard time sourcing components to do so. Many companies are even better then Apple themselves when it comes to repairs...

If you would have bothered to read the article, it states that Apple provides the machine to do these repairs to apple certified repair centers too. These are not owned by apple - and are professional companies. They will of course not provide any tools to fourth party amateurs who thinks everyone can do phone repairs, and then when the phone has damage it goes to apple or its partners to repair the bogus some amateurs have done.

So - its nice with your romantic thinking about everyone should be able to repair everything when rolling about in their VW T1 bus with flowers painted on the sides, but I am sorry to break it to you - its all about profit. And that goes for everything premium.

 

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If you would have bothered to read the article, it states that Apple provides the machine to do these repairs to apple certified repair centers too. These are not owned by apple - and are professional companies. They will of course not provide any tools to fourth party amateurs who thinks everyone can do phone repairs, and then when the phone has damage it goes to apple or its partners to repair the bogus some amateurs have done.

So - its nice with your romantic thinking about everyone should be able to repair everything when rolling about in their VW T1 bus with flowers painted on the sides, but I am sorry to break it to you - its all about profit. And that goes for everything premium.

Did you even read what i wrote?