Cool, the NSA’s TAO division is going to be thrilled.
Yay for ensuring supply chain infiltration will always be an avenue for spying.
Intelligence services everywhere are thrilled.
Phone taken at customs, hack installed while you wait.
Visiting China is going to be even more fun.
The NSA and equivalent signals intel agencies and operational espionage branches never needed no steenkin' US State legislation to pwn a phwn. But on the street, parts pairing does have the effect (primary or knock-on) of securing the supply chain, at least in normal commercial logistics.
or visiting the US for a vacation if you happen to be Chinese, Russian, etc.
Kudos to anyone with the courage and conviction to travel anywhere today. It's possible. It's culturally rewarding. There have always been DOs and DONTs. DO try to learn some of the language. The locals might find it quaint and endearing that you tried. DONT take your domestic daily driver across an international border. If you can afford to travel at all, and you insist on comms on the ground where you're going, buy a burner at your departure airport. Do not apply any personal credentials or install apps. When you land, let the customs personnel pwn it. Leave it at the airport right before you get on the plane.
Why is it always Apple? How come people don't go after DELL for selling absolute trash? Can't people just leave Apple alone and if you want to fix your broken computer, Dude get a DELL.
There's been plenty of picking on Dell and their commodity tech cohorts over the years. They all really take it in the teeth when they attempt to truly innovate. People don't go particularly nuts because everyone know they sell mostly commoditized trash, mostly running a parasitic operating system. They stay in their lane. They monetize as best they can, Expectations are managed. Their shareholders won't have it any other way.
Apple, however, is on the luxury continuum, where expectations are inflated, sometimes unrealistically, by pride of price. Apple doesn't design with for cut-price trash market segments in mind. Apple customers instinctively believe Apple's products are not trash. This makes Apple owners very defensive. Therefore, the inevitable disappointment sublimates straight to rage.
Right-to-repair is obviously, indisputably beneficial. But in the shadows, Oregon's parts pairing decision will express as increased theft of Apple devices. This is inevitable. The grey/black market for parts will develop. Back in the day, in the US at least, there were crime waves surrounding Apple's fashionable white gizmos. Some big city jurisdictions even criticized Apple for their success, and begged for theft reductions measures.
How might Apple comply with Oregon, without giving up the rest of the nation? With Oregon serial numbers logged, a geofence could allow unpaired parts to operate only in Oregon, and only on Oregon serials. Imagine having to apply to Apple for permission to take a device out of Oregon when you move, and charged a true-up fee for all the third-party parts in your off-applecare tech. Or, moving to Oregon, finding that less expensive non-paired parts wouldn't work in your Kansas phone.
It's not hard to picture Apple engaging in malicious compliance, like they're doing in Europe, right now. MAybe they'll place signs in stores and put "Cancer Labels" on boxes that says --
"Parts-Paired for Your Protection. Third Party Parts Will Not Operate. You accept these terms by opening this package or using this device." Maybe they'll etch it on the device casing.
Apple’s repair policies have nothing to do with profits and everything to do with control. Apple does not make significant profits from repairs. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they broke even or lost money all things considered.
Yes, control, but don't be fooled about the Apple's repair profit center. Apples full retail repair prices are extremely high, partly because they absolutely intend to make a profit on time and materials, partly as a sales hook for AppleCare insurance. The FUD sure as hell works on me; I suppose I'm retarded or something. I buy AppleCare on everything, even though I've never broken a phone, and haven't had a warranty claim on a Mac since 1989, a Mac Plus Power Supply. I even dodged the stupid butterfly keyboard issue. Conversely, on the job, I've had dozens of Dell and HP that needed warranty repairs.
Looking back, I'd conclude that I truly didn't need AppleCare in the earlier days. Now, however, it is even more essential, as Apple's commitment to out-the-door quality has really contracted, as they struggle with more numerous foreign factories, and to fully, correctly integrate software in scenarios beyond their requirements analysts' darkest nightmares.
Everyone wants to make everything about Apple, but this is probably more targeted towards John Deere than anything.
This supposition carries weight. Deere occupies a critical link in the food chain (obviously not alone there). They maintain positive lockout of third party and non-dealer sourced parts, and sometimes even end-user jiggering like de-powering and reconnecting a part. However, Deere does not have anywhere near enough field service techs to keep up with re-pairs. I personally know farmers with critical crops who were forced to BUY/FINANCE a new 8-series tractor to get a crop in, because no Deere techs would visit farm for WEEKS. They probably returned the tractor later, or had them repossessed, but still.
How much would it cost Deere to honorably fulfill their end game of anti-repair methodology? Enough parts in stock at all times? Enough field service techs on call? Loaner tractors for tricky repair cases? They're a dog that caught the car.
As for Apple, well, very few folks would starve if their iPhones croaked and couldn't be re-paired with a third party 800 miga-squiggle camera, or hyper-ripsey display, or clairopathic pseudofunction button. But SOOOO many more people can RELATE to their phones, than to farm tractors, Apple is the most efficient vector to legislation. Good deeds and punishment, right?
But Apple doesn't make you sign a document when you buy an iPhone that states that you don't own it and can't do with it what you want because it's not your property post purchase. That's not a part of the deal.
They kinda do... because SOFTWARE is what makes the iPhone what it is, and you agree to a license when you first power it up and update it. That, plus the Federal Digital Millenia Copyright Act (DMCA) make it so you don't own the experience, and have no practical recourse. Wrongly in my opinion, but there it is.
You own your iPhone after paying for it. Apple doesn't have the right to block you from repairing your iPhone the way you want to repair it.
Teeeechnically correct, but these days, that's hair-splitting. Through Apple's license, to which you agree, they aren't compelled to allow their software to run on that new hardware configuration. Because they wedge software in to every hardware component, even the hardware is covered under the DMCA. It's ********, and we ALL know it. As a comparison, HP remains embroiled in lawsuits over code locking their printer ink and toner cartridges - and it's not because they DO it, it's because they didn't ANNOUNCE it plainly enough on packaging. Maybe now they get away with it by putting the "Cancer Label" on the box.
Your iPhone is your property. You paid the price Apple asks for it which means it's 100% your property. Doesn't matter that it's an iPhone or that it's made by Apple or what specific ideas Apple has about what you should or shouldn't be able to do with your property... Your property is not Apple's property!
Naively wishful thinking.
I'm
not arguing against idealism.
Philosophically, I FULLY SUPPORT RIGHT TO REPAIR, in all it's forms, accepting all consequences.
However, I'm part nihilist, part fatalist on this topic. Big Tech, Big Farm, Big Cars, etc., etc., will just find another way to screw us. There's no way shareholders will tolerate, "Sorry, we were making too much money. We have to stop being ******** now." Same goes for Canva's "pledge" not to eliminate Affinity's stand-alone licensing model. There's no way they'll tolerate that scale of revenue leakage, especially when it's time to cash out with an IPO. Do they have that in Australia? They don't consistently behave like proper zero-sum, blood-thirsty capitalists.
Dealing with Apple is a choice. I sure as hell can't make my own tech stuff, and despite Apple's questionable ethics and street-etiquette, no other vendor provides better functionality, or makes a more compelling case to extract my money. There's no particular joy in Apple tech anymore. They're just tools. In every sense of the word.