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Part of the reason I only buy older cars, so I can work on them myself. I enjoy it as a hobby, and it saves me a lot of money.
Time is money. I charge more per hour than my authorized bmw dealer charges me.
Bought first non Apple notebook in 12 years turns out Ubuntu is fairly usable and docker performs way better than on OS X.
If you don't like the particularities of how with how a business does business, don't buy their products. If enough people agree with you, the company will either go out of business, or will change its business practices. The what amounts to hand wringing over Apple, mostly gets people flustered, without actually changing anything, but perhaps the direction of a few electrons somewhere.
How do I get other people to agree with me without talking about why I despise them?
Well, that’s the end of corporate MacBooks, then...
Not sure what you mean here. I don't know of a company on this planet who is self repairing Macs.
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Part of the reason I only buy older cars, so I can work on them myself. I enjoy it as a hobby, and it saves me a lot of money.
Time is money. I charge more per hour than my authorized bmw dealer charges me.
In 30 years of vehicle ownership, all main and authorised dealers do a shoddy job. Frequently fraudulent by charging for parts they did not fit. I'll prefer the independent who's probably struggling to survive.
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The repair market for Apple products isn't huge precisely because Apple has done everything it can to kill it.
The repair market for apple laptops is probably small anyways because apple is a small fish in that market. Why bother?
If they weren't actively shitting on repair companies, I'd say there'd be more of a market.
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In Asia you can get an iMac sad upgrade done for $10. You just supply the ssd. If you buy the disk from the shop the margin is tiny. You can get an iPhone screen repaired for peanuts. Apple quoted $190 to do it. Shop did it for $95. Speakers replaced on a MacBook Pro? $45.
Apple is fine with owner repairability for the parts you listed. The issue is with allowing replacement of parts where you could do something that compromises security. Replacing someone's display assembly with one that disables the on light. Or swapping keyboard with one that has a key logger.
It has nothing to do with ensuring product turnover whatsoever.
This is a shame and another setback for Macbooks / Macs. I'd agree with "planned obselescense" over security being the motive as the article pointed out. This will also not hurt Apple in the slightest, only their consumers who are blinded by their unwavering loyalty to the brand. Sent from my iPhone
I bought my last ever Apple product, an IPad v1 and was dismayed when less than 2.5 years later it stopped receiving OS updates. Its battery still lasts 20 hours and yet bugs in the browser makes it crash on so many modern web pages. I can get an Android tablet every year for $70 if I just want something I'm going to throw away.