It would be next to zero. The current system already does it. It would mostly be a minor software change on the phone. Once it is done then no additional cost as the biggest cost was setting up the databases themselves for reference already set up.
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Oregon's New Right to Repair Law Bans 'Parts Pairing' Restrictions
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It would be next to zero. The current system already does it. It would mostly be a minor software change on the phone. Once it is done then no additional cost as the biggest cost was setting up the databases themselves for reference already set up.
No, Apple doesn't share that information. But if you look at Apple's repair costs versus the cost of buying a comparable part elsewhere, there's very little space for profit. For example, Apple charges $279 to replace an iPhone 14 screen; iFixit charges $265 for that part alone.
Your example isn't a great one because Apple doesn't replace just a flex cable, they replace 3/4 of the computer. I think that's obviously overkill, but the price is for a brand new keyboard, trackpad, battery, speakers, aluminum body, etc.
Oh great. My Apple devices will once again be valuable items to steal. If not in whole, then certainly in parts. Gee. Thanks Oregon.
Don't go crying to Apple when your generic parts screw up your device.
You are right. The bill does not go far enough.
So is Oregon going to cover the damages and costs to repair the phones when these parts don’t work and make the phone worse?
It’s still going to be Apple’s fault somehow when the device fails. At least in the user’s eyes.
It’s still going to be Apple’s fault somehow when the device fails. At least in the user’s eyes.
Minus the fact Apple can still prevent parts from a stolen from being used.
Apple part pairing has zero to do with killing stolen phone. It is all about making the phone a throw away device.
Is it the car manufacturers fault when someone uses a 3rd party part and that part fails?
Most people don’t blame the manufacturer when replacement part fails.
No I wouldn't want to use a phone that kept telling me my screen is not genuine, that's why in some ways I support Apple's efforts to pair parts with devices. Because it makes stolen devices bricks.
Yep, absolutely. I actually check my junk folders occasionally. If I don’t respond in a timely manner, they can leave me a voice message on my phone.
Having it always displayed on the screen would be breaking the law as always on the screen is degraded performance.
Now they can easily make a section in the settings that displays parts not OEM or have been replaced that is fine but having it always on the screen is against the law.
I have visited China. The people are kind, the archeological and historical sites are astonishing, and there are study and training opportunities there you can’t find anywhere else. If they didn’t care for my opinions on Tibet, the CCP, corruption, intellectual property, state-supported international criminal activity, religious persecution, and Taiwanese statehood - and I’m quite sure they wouldn’t - it didn’t bother them enough that they weren’t happy to take my money for three months. All that isn’t to say you don’t have any ground to stand on. I’ve used non-oem parts to repair many Apple devices for friends and family over the years, and it‘s increasingly perilous. But blanket advisories about whole countries…for me, it’s just a baby-with-the-bathwater sort of thing.
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Everyone wants to make everything about Apple, but this is probably more targeted towards John Deere than anything.
So now apple needs to do more because the government wants to dictate how to build phones?
3rd party parts should void warranty. But this is America so I’ll get fixmyphone.com or some other website to try, break it, and then class action Apple for making the phone to hard to repair. I’ll also install some jank software that overheats my phone, and then class action Apple for making their software too good, making it hard for competitors.
Please go look up Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
I guess if you replace the air filter on your car with a non OEM part then your entire cars warranty is void so if the brakes on your car break your warranty is voided.
If you have your cars oil changes anywhere but at a dealership your warranty is voided for your entire car.
The only part of a warranty that is voided when using a 3rd part is only on that part and any damage said part directly caused. It is on the OEM to prove it.
Trust me you don’t want the MMWA to go away as again I point at the car example as that was the **** being pulled before thevMMWA entered.
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would want to go cheap on a very expensive important device such as an iPhone. Seriously, so much of my entire world revolves around this one device. If a repair ruins one’s finance, they have much larger financial problems than iPhone repair. The only problem I would have on the repair side, if Apple stopped repairing. Reliability and quality will never be compromised.
Great to se
Lots of changes ahead for Apple
Time to grind folks
Lots of changes ahead for Apple
Time to grind folks
This Right to Repair is going to be a mess because states are already setting their owner versions of it. Right to Repair needs to be one set of rules, one set of standards for EVERY state to follow.
This is great news! Would be better to see a federal law so we all get the benefits
That would require a federal law. It would be better but I'm not sure how much of a mess different state laws could really be. All they have to do is go with the strictest law and they should be fine
The performance of the screen isn't 'degraded' by what is displayed on it.
Glad I live in Oregon. Now can we move onto vehicles? Because Arcimoto is hiding behind their right to keep stuff a secret. Yet they won’t release a simple parts list for things like brake parts. We had to do an image search to find it. 🙄
I'm sure Louis Rossmann is celebrating, inbetween his advocacy for theft that is....
Degraded as part of the screen’s limited space is used to display a message. I could go farther as it is trying be misleading.