Apple released a self repair storefront, soon afterwards comes legislation that perfectly mirrors the way they operate their program. AFAIK Apple is still free to keep people from using old parts off eBay and such.
Also you can’t stock parts from what I remember. You need to get the consumer first and only then you can order the parts when the official repair stores have their stock ready to make the 3rd part stores less attractive because of the slowness.
This is just PR. Apple fights something silently then when it’s apparent they will lose they go “We endorse this”… and braindead fans will go “see Apple invented right to repair”. Then the rest gets numb trying to explain to them how Apple just says thing and rarely does anything to benefit users but naah…
Yep, most phones these days come apart by using a heat gun to loosen up the adhesive, then you slice through the adhesive with a plastic blade, and then some strong suction cups to pull the screen/back off. Which means that you need to reapply the adhesive when you put it back together again.
It's a colossal, time-consuming pain in the ass. Especially if you don't know where the cables are that connect the screen to the board, as you can slice through them and be left with another part to replace.
Right to repair doesn’t mean Mcdonalds actually care about fixing it. Their food normally take like shit anyways and orders are wrong all the time. Doubt they care about maintaining a machine.
I think I saw somewhere that their machines are always broken because they’re locked into a contract with a specific service company that sucks but that might just be McPropoganda
When I worked at Apple, much of the repairing wasn’t modular. Simply device replacement at a high fixed cost. They’d then cannibalize the surrendered devices for parts or repair them cheap, then make them replacement devices for the next person to come in. It made huge money.
That’s disheartening but I figured it had to be something like that. Ultimately then the danger will be thinking “great, now right to repair is fixed”, plus Apple gets to claim they were altruistic. Ugh.
Apple won’t be forced to change their current business practice if soldering everything to the logic board, security chips disabling devices after repairs unless unlocked with their proprietary software, etc, so it won’t affect their monopolizing of the Apple repair market. They’ll just have to offer logic boards for sale with a one pg PDF showing how to replace the board, and maybe they’ll make the security software fix more available (which would still be huge). But 99% of their users likely wouldn’t do it themselves anyway.
Either way, this is still a huge step in the right direction though!
Apple was against it because if you have parts, you can build counterfit iPhones and stuff (read about that rationale years ago, take it with a grain of salt). Also, the repair market is quite lucrative forcing customers to buy new devices than actually fixing them. They were doing this with iPods way back in the day with irreplaceable batteries or batteries so pricey, “you may as well buy a new one”.
No idea why they changed their tune. I could only imagine their revenue streams have leaned more into software now but I’m just an idiot online, what do I know.
Try asking Bing. It gives multiple possible answers with references. Still have to check the references anyway because sometimes the references don’t support the statements.
Microsoft just started selling spare parts for an xbox controller.
Fixing a drifting thumbstick is 80% the cost of a new controller in parts alone. You can fix it for $5 if you go aftermarket and are happy desoldering over 10 points to remove it.
Which, as I understand it, is kinda the point of the bills too. As in, if there is documentation and it’s reasonably easy to dis- and re-assemble, there can be a (bigger) market for spare parts.
The problem is that the thumbsticks are soldered onto the motherboard. Microsoft’s “fix” is replacing the whole motherboard, when the sticks should really be swappable.
In a Nintendo Switch, the sticks are held in by screws and connect via a ZIF connector.
Does the bill have any provision mandating that parts and repairs be fairly priced (with some reasonable legal definition for “fairly”)? Or is apple going to charge $2000 for a replacement iphone screen part?
The bill would define the following terms: “documentation,” “electronic or appliance product,” “product,” “fair and reasonable terms,” “service dealer,” and “trade secret.”
Its probably some watered down right to repair bill and the only reason apple supported it is so they can claim that theres already a rtr bill when someone wants a proper one.
Probably going to try to do the same thing to this bill that was done to the NY Right to Repair bill: Gavin Newsom will alter the bill slightly just before signing it that leaves a big gaping loophole for companies like Apple.
Google are totally into blocking ads. That was the whole catch line for selling WEI. “We’ll block all the random ads for you and keep you safe”. What they didn’t say was that they would replace the blocked ads with Google bought ads.
Well, this is just like the CIA or whatever attending Defcon. Google undoubtedly has some ulterior motive, whether it's to poach the best and brightest or to dilute the messaging, etc.
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