There's third-party phone insurance if you really want it. IMO it's best to just not do that and buy another phone (old or new, iPhone or Android) if yours breaks. This isn't like car or health insurance where you have to be risk-averse.
And regularly on the news we see stories of DIYers being crushed by their car, not many but it does happen.
I disagree, I think Apple gets their designs very right and they do it on purpose to the detriment of the consumer. Case in point, the Mac Mini was fairly easy to repair up until 2012 then it was purposely designed to discourage repairs. I recently purchased a Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini computer and it’s slightly smaller than my 2012 Mac Mini.
It's not for Apple to decide.
Remember how it was reported that the battery scandal and the cheap battery replacement program that came from it hurt sales new iPhones last year? Getting a fresh battery in your old device and the performance minded iOS 12 effectively damaged the psychological hold they had on people where they think they must upgrade their degraded devices that only feel old because of things Apple has total control over like optimization of their OS. Last year hurt their bottom line enough that they’ll fight anything that weakens their hold on having a barrier to repairability to steers towards “upgrading” and likely won’t focus on performance for future updates while some types will defend it by saying it’s because a old device doesn’t have 3+GB of RAM which will evolve in 10 years into people saying it’s because it doesn’t have ridiculous amount like 16GB.
You are factually incorrect in all cases.
Or look at it another way. If a company does not entertain my right to repair. Get them to change their mind and if that doesn't work, legislate.
I didn't think Tesla had repair shops. Isn't it put out to third parties?
The auto industry is a perfect example that people like you try to discredit.
Apple and everyone else is already told how they build their devices with the current laws that exist. That’s what laws sometimes do: force companies to do something for the common good, sometimes regardless of whether it helps a majority or a minority.
Strawman argument. The law is not about how easy something is to repair but about who can repair it and spare parts being made available or third party parts being authorised and so on
Apple is fighting Right to Repair initiatives in California by telling lawmakers that consumers could hurt themselves attempting to repair their own devices, reports Motherboard.
Over the course of the last few weeks, an Apple representative and a lobbyist for ComTIA, a trade organization representing major tech companies, have been meeting with legislators in California with the aim of killing right to repair legislation that would make it easier for customers to repair their own electronics.
The pair have met with members of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, which held a meeting on a right to repair bill this afternoon. Apple told lawmakers that customers could potentially injure themselves by accidentally puncturing the batteries in Apple devices during attempted repairs.Apple has continually lobbied against right to repair legislation across multiple states. Such legislation would require companies like Apple to provide repair parts, tools, and make repair information available to the public.
Apple devices are notoriously hard to repair given the small, proprietary components and large amounts of adhesive, with repair site iFixit giving Apple products almost universally low repair scores.
Still, the difficult repairability has not stopped thousands of small independent repair shops from making iPhone repairs. Nathan Proctor, director of consumer rights group US PIRG's right to repair campaign, told Motherboard that suggesting there are safety concerns related to spare parts and manuals is "patently absurd."
"We know that all across the country, millions of people are doing this for themselves. Millions more are taking devices to independent repair technicians," he said.
Article Link: Apple Fights Proposed Right to Repair Legislation With Warnings of Consumer Harm
