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Long gone are the days when Apple strove to make their devices easy to open, upgrade and repair.

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Manufacturers should be required to supply parts for repair and not limit functionality based upon non manufacturer repair. They should also be allowed to educate customers on their repair quality insurance and why we should choose them. But in no way discourage customers from using outside repair shops.
 
Louis Rossmann is about as far away as you can possibly get for an objective opinion about Apple.
He's still spot on about Apple these days.

I love Apple products but they are being greedy ****s and Louis Rossmann is right about Apple in repair issues.

I hope a strong Right to Repair legislation is effective soon.

Also, Apple wants to sell the image of being a eco-friendly company... but replacing things is not eco-friendly. Repairing things is.
His suggestion remains the same... VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET. DO NOT BUY APPLE PRODUCTS if you do not support this type of behavior.
 
As up to recent "non Apple consumer" I wasn't really aware of the scale of the problem. Now I remember my friend listening to her Mac Laptop while taking a bath. No, laptop did not fall in water, was merely sprayed by some water, but (as it seems it had been enough to lit its sensors) it stopped working. She went to "Geniuses/Genies" and was told only possibility was complete motherboard replacement with high replacement cost, effectively as usual - almost buying a new Mac. She went back home, dried it using hair fan, left it for half a day and everything was good.

My general conlusion on this case (and at what one can see on Louis Rossman and right to repair channel) is that they actually dont do in depth diagnostics, just en general what could be overall replaced, to drive customers off. Essentially that is doing no repair job at all, just massive replacements. So "quality of service" is easy on repair guys, heavy on users and massively overpaid. Very malicious practice. No real repair guy should give immediate verdicts, but leave it for few days for diagnostics and error diagnostics should be cheap and fair.

No real repairs in 20/21st century, just consumers "throw and replace". Similar with PeeCees and phones. But in past at least schematics were freely provided for knowledgeable electric engeeners and technicians.

It seems Apple lives "second profit life" of such repair services and now extended SSD prices on M1 class Macs :)
 
How do you keep a secure enclave secured, if everyone can physically access it?
Not relevant w.r.t repair. Secure enclave can be designed to “pair” with any nonvolatile storage but any sign of tampering would result in un-pairing and requiring both devices to be reset.

Sure you lose data, but that’s what backups are for. Besides, you shouldn’t provide passwords to repairpeople. Instead, tell them to erase the thing if they need access.
 
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