You definitely misunderstood me, I was saying pretty much the opposite. The scum ones go out of business very quickly, and the good ones are now predominant.
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iFixit Highlights Apple's Uncertain Right to Repair Stance Through Emails Shared With Judiciary Committee
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Right to Repair legislation does not make any demands of product design — at all. It is about requiring manufacturers to make documentation, parts, and tools for repair available to the public, as well as prohibiting the intentional disabling of devices that undergo independent repair.
While repairability is absolutely an issue for consumers, independent repair professionals, refurbishers, and ITAD companies/electronic waste recyclers, product design pressures are coming more from environmental certifications that the manufacturers themselves are seeking (such as EPEAT). The life cycle of a device is an important environmental consideration, so the ease of battery replacement is a major factor in those repairability assessments. Furthermore, when devices can't be easily disassembled at end-of-life, they tend to end up in landfills instead of being shredded into reusable raw materials. Battery fires at electronic recycling facilities have been a big issue in recent years.
Right to Repair advocacy is really not a winning business proposition for iFixit. It is effectively inviting OEMs to compete with us directly, whereas they currently cede the independent repair market to us (and some competitors of ours) almost entirely. If OEMs start making their service manuals and repair guides available publicly, and begin selling parts and tools themselves, it could undermine our market position quite significantly. They're already producing service manuals and repair guides for internal use, so they'd incur none of the additional costs iFixit does in creating content. They already have the factory sources for all the service parts they'd potentially sell, and the bargaining power to purchase those parts at a fraction of what they cost iFixit. We advocate for Right to Repair because we believe it is good policy, not because of business interest.
Thank you for taking the time to answer to irrational comments with thoughtful and informative answers.
Fascinating. Thanks for the insight! I would think, though, that if people were able to repair their own tech, that would increase the demand for the kinds of toolkits you produce (since the average person wouldn't have them), and still bring people to your site for the step-by-step guides you create. Your graphics are much more informative than a standard manual would be.
Its time for Cook to resign. He is the last of the Narcissists from Job's time and era. Need someone new. Cook will destroy Apple.
Cook has been at the helm since 2011. Since then Apple has expanded it's product line and the value of the company has grown tremendously.
When will this predicted destruction of Apple happen?
Congressional subpoena.
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Well, market cap isn’t the only measure of a company’s worth.
What are other objective measures other than the obvious revenue, profits etc?
Because opinions tend to be discussed/debated/argued in circles. I'm mean some "subjective" opinions could be JD Powers survey and all ilk of that nature, forum posts on MR, posts on the web etc.
What would you like to use as a measure of how Apple is doing?
Yeah, so?
Apple itself measures itself on many more sticks. Look at the bottom of the website:
Notice how it doesn't say "getting rich".
It is a fair criticism to say that Apple devices are hard to repair. One might also bring up that Apple doesn't treat third-party repair shops well, that repairability would help with the environment (which Apple purports to care about), etc.
I didn't think we were discussing the way Apple measures itself, but an objective way that consumers feel about Apple. The valuation is a by-product of these sentiments. But sure I'll go with surveys, sales, repairability and other subjective measures that consumers can evaluate form an opinion and seem to make sense and have some relevance to the real world.
Just got my third MacBook Air with no start no lights sounds nothing. Can’t wait to dig in to it with no manual or diagnostic abilities!
The hardware is yours. You can throw it off a roof, load android, burn it, whatever you want. The software is licensed should you want to use it.
Actually this is a good thing, the second hand market of iPhone replaces camera with knock offs from china and sell original for a marker, this is a good thing, now those buying used iPhones wont have a terrible photo experience with the phone.