Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)

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[–]Credit2Saidit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

So why do you continue to support that behavior by purchasing their overpriced, proprietary crap?

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Ad hominem is uninteresting. Discuss the article, not the user, ffs.

[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Have you ever heard of a rhetorical question?

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Discuss the fucking article, not the user.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Control freak attitude goes along with the article that would have you try to control Apple rather than just do what is right. Maybe consider counseling for that. -Until then; you're just fucking yourself. Apple didn't do it.

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The topic is the 'right to repair' iPhones, which is an old problem. Most people "upgrade" to new phones with their service providers without giving this much thought. It will help if they can use official Apple parts to repair their iPhones without having to use an official Apple retailer for this. I don't see anything in the article about control freak attitudes or the need for counseling, or fucking yourself, but perhaps I am not on the appropriate astral plane to see that.

[–]jjj49er 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Phone companies suck people into Apple phones. Mine offers free iPhones to new customers. They have free Android phones too, but they are the total junk, bottom of the line, barely usable phones running either an old version of Android or Android Go which is so limited that it's laughable.

People will go for the free iPhone since it's 1000 times better than the free off brand Android being offered by the phone company. Then they are stuck in the Apple ecosystem and forced to pay Apple an exuberant amount of money for any accessories and/or upgrades.

The only people I know that have iPhones are really poor. It's sad, too because they end up spending so much money on their "free" phone because you can't go outside of Apple for apps, or accessories.

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would think that all major service providers do this with all common phones. I agree that the iPhone's quality is preferred. In the OP's article, it's not clear to me if it appropriately addresses the title. For example, the Self Service Repair program was in the United States at launch in 2021, but Apple expanded the program to other countries during 2022. I think many people are aware it's a limited service. Regarding the market share among poor people, the statistics are much higher than that: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-market-share-by-country

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People who bought Apple products fucked themselves.
With a broken baseball bat.