Don’t give Apple any ideas for their rumored car
Things will be interesting when electric car batteries start failing after the warranty expires, and the car manufacturers tell customers they must replace the entire battery pack for $20,000
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Apple's Efforts to Block 'Right to Repair' Laws Highlighted in New Report
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Don’t give Apple any ideas for their rumored car
Things will be interesting when electric car batteries start failing after the warranty expires, and the car manufacturers tell customers they must replace the entire battery pack for $20,000
I've had guys in to fix 2 different ovens and a dishwasher.
There is definitely a price for the subsystems distributed to genius bars because their national subsidiaries have to pay appropriate transfer prices. Depending exactly how Apple's business is structured, they might also need to charge transfer prices for the individual components too, though if not a simple way to handle that in right to repair legislation is to prohibit exclusive supply contracts for any part which the OEM doesn't supply at cost.
No, lobbying is when the recipients have remembered to legalise it first and bribery is when they've forgotten or when a lesser being tries to join in.
At the very least, the statutory warranty for reasonable durability for consumer goods should last at least as long as the minimum time allowed by the taxman to fully depreciate the item if used for business purposes.
More importantly, anything designated as a consumable should be required to either be available at the OEM's cost price, have multiple independent suppliers or have complete published specifications plus whatever IP licences are required for third parties to produce it. Additionally, there should be an absolute ban on DRM or software locks of any kind on consumables unless they issued independently to anyone who asks, are used solely for safety certification, and no profit is made on approvals.
I would like the right to repair myself, but...
I still think its Apple's choice if they want to make their products repairable or not. If you don't like the product just don't buy it. I personally do not buy Mercedes or BMWs because I know how expensive they can be to repair, I would buy a toyota or Honda that can be much easier to fix by anyone for cheaper labour and cheaper spare parts.
That being said, yes it would be a waste of material, money, and hurts the environment if you can lengthen the life of anything with a simple cheap fix over throwing it all out over a $20 fix that could make run for another 2-3 years.
I still think its Apple's choice if they want to make their products repairable or not. If you don't like the product just don't buy it. I personally do not buy Mercedes or BMWs because I know how expensive they can be to repair, I would buy a toyota or Honda that can be much easier to fix by anyone for cheaper labour and cheaper spare parts.
That being said, yes it would be a waste of material, money, and hurts the environment if you can lengthen the life of anything with a simple cheap fix over throwing it all out over a $20 fix that could make run for another 2-3 years.
The options are limited though, and it is unlikely to find one that ticks all boxes. Settling for the compromise where the pros outweigh the cons the most is a rational choice, and it does not mean one has to be happy with the cons.
Irrespective of your personal viewpoint, this is about the ability to repair your devices.
Funny how people care about Right to Repair their old dusty androids when the software / security normally dies two years later.
Apple already supports devices for like 5+ years and lowers the price of previous models, If i busted my phone i'd just buy an SE for 350, or a used phone for 200-250.
Apple already supports devices for like 5+ years and lowers the price of previous models, If i busted my phone i'd just buy an SE for 350, or a used phone for 200-250.
That's the problem here - there is no alternative to Apple. Android is not a platform I'd be willing to deal with for a whole ton of reasons so I'm stuck with Bitten Fruit whether I like it or not. And while I do agree that it is Apple's choice to some extent on how to design their devices there should be better laws protecting the consumer. Otherwise what's stopping them from programming in a complete device destruction the very same day your warranty ends? Right, absolutely nothing.
You do know there are other device brands besides Apple. Open the garden gate. It's beautiful on the other side.
Once the soldered RAM on my MacBook Air died four days out of warranty. I took it to the Apple Store and they said it would be $500+ for a new motherboard and they’d have to send it away for the repair.Once I accidentally broke my iPad Pro 9.5" (1st gen) display.
I took it to the Apple Store and they told me my AppleCare had expire a month ago.
The Genius then talked to a Manager and in the end they honored it as it if was under AppleCare, I just happily paid the deductible, and got a replacement unit! 🥳
Sorry to hear that. Did you try talking to a Manager or going to another Apple store?
I did, in the post you quoted me for. AppleCare+ is the best protection plan in the industry. Apple's customer satisfaction rate is a cut above the rest of the competition and the ease and simplicity of AppleCare is a large factor in that super high satisfaction rate. Why jeopardize that? Why jeopardize customer's trust in Apple? And I am talking about the vast majority of Apple's customers, not the tinkering techies that peruse these forums (which probably accounts for a single digit user base.) Going to an unauthorized repair service with lesser customer service will not help their customer satisfaction rate.
No, that's not for you to decide and neither you nor Apple have ANY right to think or force where and how consumers decide to fix their devices. You want to spend lots of money with Apple? Go ahead, that option will remain.
What makes you think you should have any say where others can go for repair?
You still haven't addressed Apple's high customer satisfaction rate and how AppleCare attributes to that.
LOL you're right. I don't have a say. Apple has that say and has already decided, and it has given them good results as well as to the VAST majority of their customers. You want to fix your device? It's a free market. You're welcome to any number of Android devices where you have free reign on how you'd like to repair it.
Yes, it’s well established that it’s much better for Apple to recycle your device, which they do for free, than to have all the individual repair
LOL. What’s keeping them from doing that is the free market, supply and demand. If they did that who would buy an iPhone when they have dozens of other choices.
Thank you for illustrating how wrong it is to argue that the government can/should force Apple to adopt a whole new way of design, etc, jus to appear a tiny, tiny minority who can simply buy another brand if they want to. The rest of us don’t want to have to pay more and put up with inferior products just so .001% of folks can toyaround with their devices
Actually apple care is not at all the best. My credit card plan is free and covers more than apple care for a longer period. AppleCare is just another money grab for the uneducated and lemmings.
So how long should Apple produce repair parts? 2 generations at the most I feel is appropriate, they shouldn’t have to support a 5 year old phone
Irrelevant. Why do you think this matters?
That's not how the right to repair works.
Your clear bias in support of Apple really is offensive. Do you have some kind of debt owed to Apple or something?
None at all. I just see that the way they run business keeps most of their customers happy and coming back for more. I see no reason why they should change.
Shocked.
Shocked!
To see people downvoting posts that encourage recycling and devices that should be streamlined so that the manufacturer can easily recycle the materials into new products instead of being thrown into a landfill by a turd party repair man.
Actually not shocked because there will always be human scum out there who want to create as much dirt, filth and trash as possible in the name of FREEDOOOOOOOM
Shocked!
To see people downvoting posts that encourage recycling and devices that should be streamlined so that the manufacturer can easily recycle the materials into new products instead of being thrown into a landfill by a turd party repair man.
Actually not shocked because there will always be human scum out there who want to create as much dirt, filth and trash as possible in the name of FREEDOOOOOOOM