With all due respect. Piss off, Apple.
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This is ludicrous. Apple has a right to sell you a device and limit OEM parts for "home repairability". Why are so many people opposed to technological progress? Can you imagine where we would be if POLITICIANS dictated what repairable meant?
Using adhesives increase the durability and make products smaller and more compact. Why would you think screws, shock mounts, and a ribbon cable are more efficient then directly connecting memory to a board? Everything will be printed at the molecular level someday. Will the same people crying on here be demanding that Apple keep components large enough to be manipulated by pliers and screw drivers?
Absurd. If you want a computer you can repair at home with Craftsman tools, buy a Dell from 1999. No one is stopping you from living in the past.
This is ludicrous. Apple has a right to sell you a device and limit OEM parts for "home repairability". Why are so many people opposed to technological progress? Can you imagine where we would be if POLITICIANS dictated what repairable meant?
Using adhesives increase the durability and make products smaller and more compact. Why would you think screws, shock mounts, and a ribbon cable are more efficient then directly connecting memory to a board? Everything will be printed at the molecular level someday. Will the same people crying on here be demanding that Apple keep components large enough to be manipulated by pliers and screw drivers?
Absurd. If you want a computer you can repair at home with Craftsman tools, buy a Dell from 1999. No one is stopping you from living in the past.
[doublepost=1487136584][/doublepost]A "Right to Repair" law would require Apple and other manufacturers to sell repair parts to consumers and independent repair shops and make diagnostic and service manuals available to the public. Currently, Apple runs the Apple Authorized Service Provider Program, which requires businesses to let Apple review their financial records, maintain high levels of customer service, establish a credit line with Apple, and promote AppleCare.
Nailed what? His post is a clear indication he either didn't understand what he read or completely ignored it and supplanted it with an alternate reality. I don't think you understood either.People think they want larger, modular, less durable devices so they can disassemble them more easily. Your post nailed it.
No one is stopping us from living in the past, but someone should have stopped you before you typed that nonsense. Can I suggest something? How about you go back and read the article again and get a better understanding. This has nothing to do with anything you're talking about. It has nothing to do with adhesives, smaller components, soldering, or anything like that. This is about making the repairable OEM components and repair manuals available to consumers and shops without having to go through the hassle of being an authorized dealer.
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Nailed what? His post is a clear indication he either didn't understand what he read or completely ignored it and supplanted it with an alternate reality. I don't think you understood either.
Didn't they own some patent for sonically welding aluminum together? They could just do that and then you'd need a dremel to get them open.Apple's will just use a heat resistant glue and seal all devices permanently with zero reparability. At least right now you can replace the screen and battery at Apple.
[doublepost=1487133236][/doublepost]Wait until the iPhone X is completely sealed and sourrounded in glass and the only way to repair it is to break it.
Remember that this proposed law doesn't only apply to Apple; there are plenty of other devices that don't have tiny tolerances etc.as the products become even more tightly integrated, special tools or even disposability is likely. This is reality in 2017 and beyond, and no amount of legislation is going to bring us back to the time of the easily repairable plastic shell Handspring Treo, with screws showing and creaky, bulky cases.
Nope, you can buy a modern phone with replaceable parts. It might not be as thin as the current iPhone but thinness would be the only dividing factor between a modern phone and your 1999 example.This is ludicrous. Apple has a right to sell you a device and limit OEM parts for "home repairability". Why are so many people opposed to technological progress? Can you imagine where we would be if POLITICIANS dictated what repairable meant?
Using adhesives increase the durability and make products smaller and more compact. Why would you think screws, shock mounts, and a ribbon cable are more efficient then directly connecting memory to a board? Everything will be printed at the molecular level someday. Will the same people crying on here be demanding that Apple keep components large enough to be manipulated by pliers and screw drivers?
Absurd. If you want a computer you can repair at home with Craftsman tools, buy a Dell from 1999. No one is stopping you from living in the past.
I agree these are more important problems for most people, but you can devote enough attention to those and still find a "right to repair" bill worthwile.real problems like rampant homelessness and traffic gridlock.
This is ludicrous. Apple has a right to sell you a device and limit OEM parts for "home repairability". Why are so many people opposed to technological progress? Can you imagine where we would be if POLITICIANS dictated what repairable meant?
Using adhesives increase the durability and make products smaller and more compact. Why would you think screws, shock mounts, and a ribbon cable are more efficient then directly connecting memory to a board? Everything will be printed at the molecular level someday. Will the same people crying on here be demanding that Apple keep components large enough to be manipulated by pliers and screw drivers?
Absurd. If you want a computer you can repair at home with Craftsman tools, buy a Dell from 1999. No one is stopping you from living in the past.
You think they haven't already? if random Chinese companies can get a hold off original car parts easily…….oh, they already have and the implications for dud car parts are far more profound than they would be for any phone no matter who makes it.I don't think Apple forbade you from fixing your stuff yourself, that is if you can actually do it.
The proposed rule here is to force manufacturers, including Apple, to sell the components to anybody, not just their authorized service providers. I can understand any companies being wary of this. Imagine if random Chinese companies can get a hold off Apple's original parts easily.
No one is stopping us from living in the past, but someone should have stopped you before you typed that nonsense. Can I suggest something? How about you go back and read the article again and get a better understanding. This has nothing to do with anything you're talking about. It has nothing to do with adhesives, smaller components, soldering, or anything like that. This is about making the repairable OEM components and repair manuals available to consumers and shops without having to go through the hassle of being an authorized dealer.
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Nailed what? His post is a clear indication he either didn't understand what he read or completely ignored it and supplanted it with an alternate reality. I don't think you understood either.
They have a right only to do what is within the law. I hope it changes. That is what society is, sometimes we like it sometimes we don’t. The law is usually intended to protect small companies and the consumer/individual or those who have less.This is ludicrous. Apple has a right to sell you a device and limit OEM parts for "home repairability". Why are so many people opposed to technological progress? Can you imagine where we would be if POLITICIANS dictated what repairable meant?
Using adhesives increase the durability and make products smaller and more compact. Why would you think screws, shock mounts, and a ribbon cable are more efficient then directly connecting memory to a board? Everything will be printed at the molecular level someday. Will the same people crying on here be demanding that Apple keep components large enough to be manipulated by pliers and screw drivers?
Absurd. If you want a computer you can repair at home with Craftsman tools, buy a Dell from 1999. No one is stopping you from living in the past.
Do you have the source for this? Cause yeah, that is pretty retarded, but I can't imagine some lawyer actually using that defense.Last time Apple tried defending their stance on this, they said that making a dead MacBook work again makes it into a "PC" and that it is "not a real Mac" if it has its board repaired to work when it didn't before. As if it matters for out-of-warranty Macs that what was dead is made working again.
I don't use the word often, but Apple's defense is what many call "retarded".
Do you have the source for this? Cause yeah, that is pretty r******d, but I can't imagine some lawyer actually using that defense.
In all fairness, I don't want either of those things (until there aren't tradeoffs associated with them)....and make(s) products smaller and more compact.
Lol, that was entertaining.With the enormous variety of words in the English language, would it be too much to ask you to find a less offensive term? (And yes, it is offensive.) I'm certain that "stupid", "foolish", "unfathomable", or any of a dozen other words could convey your point without the stigma associated with that other term.