You could ask your boss to halve your hourly rate and double your working hours.Apple has a problem: price. Apple could reduce 50% the price of all products and boost sales tremendously worldwide.
You could ask your boss to halve your hourly rate and double your working hours.Apple has a problem: price. Apple could reduce 50% the price of all products and boost sales tremendously worldwide.
Perhaps they would bring in more profit if they did lower the prices.Apple has a problem: price. Apple could reduce 50% the price of all products and boost sales tremendously worldwide.
Additionally, in the case of Mac they use many times soldered components (RAM, SSD and GPU), so that you cannot upgrade the machine later on (programmed obsolescence and big anti-ecological impact on planet Earth!) or with proprietary connectors, so that you are forced to purchase from Apple.
And Apple charges 2 to 3 times more for the very same product as compared to sites like Amazon when you buy just one item (whereas Apple purchases millions, so they could give even better price than Amazon.
Do not get me wrong. I love Apple products and in particular the Mac. But the situation is clearly unfair.
LOL. Can you imagine what they would come up with.ormonitor?
It would be interesting to see some solid research on this aspect of human behavior.
Since when does lack of repairability mean planned obsolescence?
It is not planned at all, as advances in all technologies of ever faster devices, cars and products happen.
Would you say the Volkswagen beetle was produced with planned obsolescence in say 1958?
A mixer using more power than what they use now due to more efficiency.
You can take any product and follow its improvement path to see that nothing I planned to become obsolete.
When CDs replace vinyl records, then mp3s replaced CDs, was that all planned obsolescence by the music labels?
At least Apple tries to recycle as much as possible.
I'd say the companies turning out real $&$^%$ low quality products which don't hold up like Black and Decker and others should be chastised.
In the end it's all about the money. Y=Try to get a part for an ORAL-B electric toothbrush, other than the battery. There are so many throw away products created every day that I find the Greenpeace and iFixit stance is missing the point.
If something cannot be fixed = too much money it ends in the trash, if one can even get parts for it. See tons of air conditioners at my local scarp yard and bought 3 Gas which all stopped working. Traced it down to a small logic board inside. Probably at most a $ 10 piece. Try to buy that. Good luck.
Then you have the technically untalented who can't fix a thing.
That endless cycle between deciding if it's even WORTH to repair or should be thrown in the trash is never ending!
Like somebody else posted use less and recycle is the better way.
Planned obsolescence has nothing to do with repairability.
Since when does lack of repairability mean planned obsolescence?
What a bunch of tools (pun intended) ... maybe somebody should explain to them "Closed Loop Supply Chain". SMH.
https://www.apple.com/environment/resources/
But it doesn't matter. I used to fix all my own iPhones all the way up to the iPhone 5s, but its easier just to take it to apple and usually cheaper in the long run.I assume the purpose is to prevent people who still don't have a strong opinion on the matter from developing one like yours.aka. making people understand that repairability matters.
If I could have the 7.1 back to my iPad 3, I'd be happier than with this stuttering 9.3.5... even with its security problems. If Apple would be fair (which they're not, then need money for every quarter), they'd offer just security updates for the older models without the need to update to a slow, stuttering awesomenes of a new version.
That is pure planned obsolescence.
The best, I repeat BEST way for the environment is to use less. NOT use and recycle.
Doesn't need your "help". It is a legitimate argument.
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https://www.apple.com/environment/ get back to me when you have overcome being a victim of click-bait.
Who said it can't be repaired?If you can't repair it you have to replace it.
Seems like a pretty good definition to me
Maybe, but in my experience, Apple could just as easily made iPad screens like modern iPhone screens. Not much glue and certainly just as good if not better. Do iMacs really need to be glued together? Do SSDs need to be soldered to the board? This is simple stuff to solve yet Apple seems to not get it.There is a reason, eventually screw loosens and things fall apart or start to rattle.
Also, to put a screw on, you need some structural change to the case or parts that limits which one can fit.
Routing/fitting various parts is extremely tight in there.
It's the combination of multiple engineering demands, not just one, that leads to glue.
Since when 1 part breaks that you can't replace, you have to replace the whole unit.Since when does lack of repairability mean planned obsolescence?
Rather misleading to say 'the most environmentally friendly technology company' when this report only appears to discuss infrastructural energy usage; nothing about use of recycled vs virgin materials and high intensity rare earths, recyclability of products, hazardous material content, water usage, transportation costs, environmental pollutant load, air quality etc...
It is not planned at all, as advances in all technologies of ever faster devices, cars and products happen....
When CDs replace vinyl records, then mp3s replaced CDs, was that all planned obsolescence by the music labels?
At least Apple tries to recycle as much as possible.
I'd say the companies turning out real $&$^%$ low quality products which don't hold up like Black and Decker and others should be chastised.
Re-use of the device through repair is far superior than sending it to an electronics shredder so it can be recycled.What a bunch of tools (pun intended) ... maybe somebody should explain to them "Closed Loop Supply Chain". SMH.
https://www.apple.com/environment/resources/
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5. Apple supports their machines far longer than other companies, it was just this year that the last plastic-bodied Powerbook was obsoleted, and that's a period of over 10 years.
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