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Apple Expands Self Service Repair in Europe, Now Covers iPhone 15 and M2 Macs
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AlmightyKang
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If you're on earth for 5 decades you'd know that 100Gb equals 12,5GB...which really isn't that much storage at all.
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Haha well played. Damn my failure on units. Stupid because I have an engineering degree and should know better!
Great to see that it's expanded to my country, too. I never expected that and it's a great surprise. Prices for batteries are actually great when you return the old one. I've always felt comfortable doing repairs myself and this is looking a whole lot cheaper than service centers here do. The service centers charge what you'd pay if you didn't return your old part, essentially. Sadly they don't seem to have enclosures or midframes for the 14/15 series where you can replace it independently of the back glass. The back glass and cameras are super expensive. Even the taptic engine, which isn't paired and you can find for single digit prices everywhere else, is north of 120 euro. Yikes. Doesn't make much sense to me.
What I wonder is - would this void warranty? European resellers who have to provide the other year of warranty on top of Apple's 1 year limited warranty are pretty strict with that. If you've even just opened your phone and it wasn't them, your warranty is over. For example I had my battery replaced on a previous iPhone in an Apple authorized service center and my carrier denied a warranty claim in the second year because it has been opened before and it was not in their service center. You can't bring it even to an official authorized service provider without voiding everything beyond your 1 year Apple limited warranty.
What I wonder is - would this void warranty? European resellers who have to provide the other year of warranty on top of Apple's 1 year limited warranty are pretty strict with that. If you've even just opened your phone and it wasn't them, your warranty is over. For example I had my battery replaced on a previous iPhone in an Apple authorized service center and my carrier denied a warranty claim in the second year because it has been opened before and it was not in their service center. You can't bring it even to an official authorized service provider without voiding everything beyond your 1 year Apple limited warranty.
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Colpeas
macrumors 6502a
I'd argue that this is more of a right-to-upgrade thing. Apple charges ridiculous amounts for ram and storage upgrades even though both is fairly cheap these days.
As far as repairs are concerned, SSDs are definitely more reliable now than they were in the past, but it just feels like such a waste to replace the entire motherboard with all the formerly auxiliary components when one NAND chip goes bad.
I think at this point it’s more likely for a capacitor to blow than an SSD to fail because of age and wear. I really support right to repair and yes, SSDs can fail, but so can everything else that just has to be soldered. If people are that set on fixing the device, they can bring it to a repair shop that can solder on a new SSD. Apple doesn’t software lock Mac SSDs to the device. It’s extremely rare for the SSD to fail during the useful life of a computer. So mostly what it boils down to is people just being unhappy with Apple’s upgrades pricing. And I get it – if you need more storage or RAM it just doesn’t add up and the prices are crazy. But that’s totally separate from environmental stuff. Maybe Apple refuses to do it because they’ve done the math and decided to solder it because it makes sense to do so. Maybe they’ve done the research and not as many people want to upgrade their SSD as the CO2 emissions or waste saved from soldering it on instead of having to build a socket and an SSD as a separate module. We really don’t know how much that saves but I’m pretty sure soldering the SSD as just another chip on the board instead of having it as a separate package which makes the whole module quite a bit bigger which is more plastic and silicon. I think there can be 2 sides to this.
floral
macrumors 65816
Some people (technically erroneously but still) say "Gb" as an abbreviation for gigabyte. So maybe they meant 100 gigabytes? which is a good amount more.If you're on earth for 5 decades you'd know that 100Gb equals 12,5GB...which really isn't that much storage at all.
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Colpeas
macrumors 6502a
Well they do actually, check out Mac Studio. It has a removable SSD, but you cannot even replace it with a part taken out from another same-gen device.
Well it was bloody nitpicking on my part, then again in my defence I think when Talking Tech we all should be accurate in order to avoid misinterpretation
Yeah, I should've been lenient in that nitpicking statement...