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iFixit Ends Repair Relationship With Samsung
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I imagine iFixit is a nightmare to work with. They're a tiny company compared to Samsung, they're whiney, and they seem to think they just have a right to exist and be listened to. I'm not surprised it fell through...
Nevermind, you said it better:
Nevermind, you said it better:
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Or you could have them recycled... Landfill is a choice. It's the choice that most people take which is the reason why self repair will never make a difference. If your mindset is "repair or landfill", then you're probably landfilling the components you swap out and landfilling the product you destroyed while trying to repair it.
Want to reduce ewaste? Tax ewaste. Charge a $100 deposit on every phone purchased that can be reclaimed when the phone is returned for recycling. Want to increase ewaste? Encourage people to open their teeny tiny electronics with their big monkey fingers to **** with stuff inside.
At the end of the day, it’s business. You gotta source parts from the most cost efficient supplier to keep retail prices down.
I’m willing to bet most people would not happily pay more for parts if they were “morally sourced”. People talk a good talk, but how they spend money indicates that lower costs take priority over morals. Just look at the success of Walmart.
Furthermore, the average user doesn’t care about servicing their own phone or where said parts come from. They would rather pay a trusted source to perform the repairs with quality parts and provide a warranty. Call it lazy, ignorant, foolish, whatever; the average user doesn’t care about right to repair. Probably hasn’t even heard about it. And when I say average user, the average user isn’t spending time on tech rumor forums.
Ifixit is a whiny naggy bitch of a company.
Projection is a b*tch.
iFixit: companies are greedy and make repairs expensive for customers
Also iFixit: come buy our expensive convoluted repair kits to fight corporate greed!
When I needed my iPhone 7 display replaced, I needed something just to contact Apple for AppleCare+ and in the end, they refused service because I had the display replaced with a third party display.
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I got myself a 26 year old motorola international 2700. Repair is plug and play. Betteries are still avalible 🤣.
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I looked for fun into Ifixid's List for my 2019 MBP. No parts at all. So - what are they crying about...
So charge money to recycle? Or simply produce less? Also, unless that amazing looking robot Apple showed in a video can be deployed in more locations, there will still be big monkey fingers ************ stuff inside. And the recycle technology advancements. And the overall awareness. Maybe companies like Apple should pay customer to recycle their old devices. Idk.
Never trust corporations.
Their "good" choices are just for marketing, so it's for money just like all other choices.
Seems obvious but we tend to forget it because they give brands a personality, it feels like they're people. They're not (don't give me "corporations are people", that's nothing more than a play on words based on legal corporate personhood). They're complex money-making machines with no respect for human beings.
Their "good" choices are just for marketing, so it's for money just like all other choices.
Seems obvious but we tend to forget it because they give brands a personality, it feels like they're people. They're not (don't give me "corporations are people", that's nothing more than a play on words based on legal corporate personhood). They're complex money-making machines with no respect for human beings.
Samsung Electronics is in competition with TSMC and their chip factories are not getting customers. There is a quality trouble with appliances. But the phone business has recovered after the battery fiasko, although foldables are just requiring to many repairs.
I wont completely slam Samsung here, as I remember when I worked for Apple during the whole 'your phone looks too much like my phone' lawsuit, I remember Apple saying (paraphrasing here as it was 10-15 years ago roughly) 'It cant be the same shape and it can't be the same colour'. I Remember thinking.. C'mon Apple, since when do you own the copyright to a shape and a colour? Apple aren't a bunch of saints either!
Now, that aside, (speaking from my perspective only), I won't buy any other TV than Samsung. I personally think they are the best on the market, but... yes, their parts are damn expensive. I needed the base for a 65" Curve 3D TV and ordering it cost me an astronomical figure, thinking to myself it must be made of gold! That, and I needed my ear buds fixed (kept them because they have 4GB inbuilt storage - cannot stand streaming earbuds - again, that's just me). It would have cost me more in repairs than buying a new set. So, I bought a new set
Now, that aside, (speaking from my perspective only), I won't buy any other TV than Samsung. I personally think they are the best on the market, but... yes, their parts are damn expensive. I needed the base for a 65" Curve 3D TV and ordering it cost me an astronomical figure, thinking to myself it must be made of gold! That, and I needed my ear buds fixed (kept them because they have 4GB inbuilt storage - cannot stand streaming earbuds - again, that's just me). It would have cost me more in repairs than buying a new set. So, I bought a new set
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Do Apple get overrun with repair requests because of the Samsung manufactured parts they use?
iFixit is great company, but sometimes they should not publish some stories. Like did they expect for Samsung (or Apple for that matter) to play ball? For Samsung it was short-term PR win and now they have nothing to gain from extending the deal.
Both Apple & Samsung are equally bad in terms of reparability. While Apple has better track record at long-term hardware support they offer, both scalp customers in every imaginable way. I dumped Samsung in general because of their super shady business dealings (e.g. evading sanctions on Ruzzia), outrageous data mining practices and locking private customers out of enterprise drives support behind corporate wall of stupidity.
Both Apple & Samsung are equally bad in terms of reparability. While Apple has better track record at long-term hardware support they offer, both scalp customers in every imaginable way. I dumped Samsung in general because of their super shady business dealings (e.g. evading sanctions on Ruzzia), outrageous data mining practices and locking private customers out of enterprise drives support behind corporate wall of stupidity.
