Apple backs their version of personal repair where they still control who repairs what, who can sell or buy parts and at what price and continues to be completely anti-consumer to protect their massively profitable repair business.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Very suspicious.
The only “Apple” that I will believe when it comes to supporting right to repair is Steve Wozniak.
Apple just wants to get in on the ground floor so they can shape the legislation to benefit themselves. There's no way in hell a company as blatantly anti-repair as apple has suddenly decided to shift it's priorities when it makes them absolute bank.
They don't have to pay people to repair their phones if they let people go somewhere else to get their phones repaired.
They make far more money on margins for their tightly controlled parts doing the repairs themselves in house than letting independant repair shops do it for them. There's a very clear reason why companies like apple/john deere are so anti right to repair. They make shitloads off of being the place to go to "repair" your device at an insane markup(to discourage repair in the first place.) And if you don't like it, you can just buy a new one of their products. So they win either way.
Letting independant repair shops replace a chip for a couple bucks in parts andmaybe $50-$100 in labor absolutely eats into their margins and they see none of that money. It's a big reason why they control their supply chain so tightly and do stupid things like serializing parts and programming/pairing parts together. So other shops can't do the repairs they themselves can do.
When imposter is sus.
"Backs" it... yeah nah
Part is the same price as just sending it to apple.
Isn't this legislation kinda half backed since it let's them "protect" their IP.
I haven't gotten a chance to look at it yet, but Lewis Rossmann's comments are usually very helpful for things like this. I don't know what apple is playing at.
Apples policy’s won’t change much. Anything considered a “security” feature or part doesn’t have to made available or can be bundled into a “package”. Speciality tools and schematics don’t need to be made available etc. same watered down stuff as usual. Apple wants the positive PR of seeming like they are on the right side of right to repair.
From the comment section on YouTube
"Further, the bill has a component that prevents manufacturers from being required to make tools, parts, and documentation available for any component that would disable or override antitheft security measures, which would encompass features like Face ID." Apple isn't giving away the farm. As long as they consider it security-sensitive, they don't have to share it with anyone.
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