Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
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Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#2Why wouldn't they, they are the sole provider of the parts, manuals, tools, the software is so locked down you have to ask for their blessing to install them. You can't go to rock auto and get parts for your MacBook Pro.
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#3When can I buy parts at a reasonable cost?
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#4Why wouldn't they, they are the sole provider of the parts, manuals, tools, the software is so locked down you have to ask for their blessing to install them. You can't go to rock auto and get parts for your MacBook Pro.
> It would also make its parts, tools, and repair documentation available to both non-affiliated repair shops and individual customers, "at fair and reasonable prices“.
not sure if this is related, but it looks like a step in the right direction.
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#5When can I buy parts at a reasonable cost?
which parts aren’t at a reasonable cost?
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#6I think at this point it makes sense. I imagine most consumers aren’t interested in repairing themselves, but aren’t super interested in going to some random local repair shop. At this point they have their consumers hooked on visiting the Apple Store. Not really a net loss for them, plus it gives off the appearance of being consumer friendly.
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#7Why wouldn't they, they are the sole provider of the parts, manuals, tools, the software is so locked down you have to ask for their blessing to install them. You can't go to rock auto and get parts for your MacBook Pro.
It's still a step in the right direction.
Right now, some repair shops (e.g. Louis Rossmann) have had to buy broken laptops and scavenge components in order to make repairs.
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What percentage of the worldwide landfills is apple products? If I’d wager a guess, I’d say it’s less that 1/1000
Re: Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools
#10Why wouldn't they, they are the sole provider of the parts, manuals, tools, the software is so locked down you have to ask for their blessing to install them. You can't go to rock auto and get parts for your MacBook Pro.
> It would also make its parts, tools, and repair documentation available to both non-affiliated repair shops and individual customers, "at fair and reasonable prices“. not sure if this is related, but it looks like a step in the right direction.
Who would decide what "fair and reasonable prices" are?
The only reasonable price for documentation that already exists is quite frankly zero.