Apple already offers trade-in and free recycling of old devices. How many other manufacturers do that? What more should they do, create an Apple Police department that comes to remove your old device by force so it can be properly recycled?
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Apple's 'Environmental Obligations Are Not Taken Seriously Enough,' Say British Lawmakers
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I actually think standardizing on cords and chargers is a very good thing - both for the environment and for users.
I imagine some Apple competitors have spoken to these lawmakers and conveniently raise awareness. This says more about the lawmakers than Apple.
No, they are not. Sure, there are companies that are worse. But that’s a little „whataboutism“, Russia style, and doesn‘t mean, Apple shouldn‘t do better. Have a broken front-glass on your iphone? Whole display needs to be changed. Same with the keyboard on macbooks, glued in batteries, all-in-one-imac screens that are thrown away with the rest of the computer, proprietary charging solutions, not very long-lasting iphone-cases/watchbands...
And this has to be done from the regulators position. Otherwise companies will for sure try to cut costs and make smaller and less repairable devices. Yes, Apple is doing nice green PR about getting rid of rare materials, clean energy and recycling programs. But they are still a major producer of e-waste and a lot of throw-away products - putting a green hat on top of that doesn‘t change that.
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Apple already offers to recycle every one of those devices for free.
Apple is constantly introducing are programs, processes, and innovations to combat waste and their carbon footprint. Of all the companies to go after, this one makes the least sense...
This coming from a government that just decided to break the law as they wish?
Apple should now disregard anything that boris and his lying cronies say.
Apple should now disregard anything that boris and his lying cronies say.
I think the issue is less what their actions and policies may or may not be, and more them not putting forward someone to discuss the matter.
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Hey, they're only breaking the law in very specific and limited ways!
Being able to send your end-of-life device back to Apple has nothing to do with how Apple then go on to dispose of the non-recyclable elements of it, or how much of that device can't be recycled due to initial design considerations.
Apple could make their devices more user repairable. But that wouldn't go well with the planned obsolescence model.
Bunch of political hypocrites! How about sorting out their national environmental policies and urge the US govt to do the same thing! Apple's impact is tiny in comparison and has been doing far more than some of those political types.
Repairing Apple products was great back in the 80's, but as customers wanted smaller and smaller computer products, the electronics got smaller and smaller. I was an Apple level 2 repair engineer, will soldering gun will travel. I fixed many of Apple products in the 80's but with any technology it moves on.
I remember when I was 8 year old going to the local small store and taking our vacuum tubes from our RCA console TV to test them if they were good or bad. This is one of my best father and son memories and got me into electronics and computer technology.
Well it's been linked to UK Parliament/Government in one way or another for a few hundred years so I don't think anyone reads anything sinister into it.
The British lawmaker - Philip Dunne MP, voted to break international law last night. Such hypocrisy! Why should Apple, or anyone else care what he or the British Government think now. Our international reputation is in tatters.
Jeremy Corbyn living in your head rent free.
Corbyn hasn't been LOTO for months now.
Which one is making billions?
As people around here love to say when an Apple device goes obsolete, "it still works just as well as it always did".
Yep, was trying to think of how to respond to that. This is good 👍🏻
@NMBob 's post spurred me to do a quick web search; found this design-focussed piece that someone else might find interesting: https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/19-25-march-2018/parliament-logo/
The UK is a joke of a country now that they're ignoring international law with their UK Internal Markets bill. The brit gov't is planning to role back immigration protections, human rights laws, and that's just the beginning. To accuse Apple of dodging their responsibilities is a big joke. The UK is as irrelevant to most of the rest of the world. An island nation without any trade agreements.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE THINKING THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS A CHEEK TO SAY THIS GIVEN WHAT A SHOWER OF SELFISH UNPRINCIPLED LAW-BREAKING BUFFOONS THEY ARE:
This article is about a parliamentary select committee. That's not a branch of the current administration, it's an independent, cross-party committee (as I understand it). The MPs involved may or may not be honourable people but they're not (or at least they're not all) representative of, or represented by, the current British executive.
Wasn't that the EU? the UK is no longer part of that