Could you chill with the relentless insults? I'd appreciate it.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but once you tally up overpriced parts together with their oversized, heavy, expensive rental of tools that you don't need, you end up with a sum that matches what you would pay to have it repaired by Apple - except you're doing all of the work yourself.
A curious consumer who has never repaired a device, but might have been interested in doing so, will therefore conclude that repairing their own device is 1. Far too complicated, thanks to an intimidating-looking piece of kit that they recommend, but is completely unnecessary, and 2. Far too expensive, because Apple prices these such that the repair is made economically nonviable.
So yes, I still believe that this is Apple fighting the anti-repair war on a psychological front. You're giving them benefit of the doubt even though they've established a clear pattern of behavior that demonstrates their anti-repair stance beyond any reasonable doubt - although you dance around the citations and claim that I'm being unreasonable about Apple genuinely making the repair situation "better".
Futhermore, I'm not a fanboy or anti-fanboy of any company. The only thing I'm an anti-fanboy of are anti-consumer practices. If Apple changed some of their practices I'd go out and buy an iPhone and a Macbook tomorrow.
The fact that I pointed out that Apple is hostile against repair does not mean that I endorse Google, Samsung, or any other brand - they all suck when it comes to repair, yet you're taking it as a personal attack and calling me names for it.
Excuse me? I'm clearly not the one who crossed into flamewar, please read the previous 1-2 comments.
edit: Describing others as "bitching", "bad faith", and "hater", runs afoul of half of the guidelines on this site. That comment somehow isn't moderated, but mine is called out for crossing into flamewar?
You were both breaking the site guidelines, and I replied to both of you in the same way.
Even if I hadn't, though, we need you to follow the rules regardless of what anybody else is doing, and the same goes for every user here. Pointing a finger at the other person isn't helpful.
I understand it can be difficult to have someone point out that you're not approaching a situation in good faith, but that's not exactly "relentless insults".
It can be difficult to handle the intimation that maybe there is the mirror image of the "brainless apple sheeple" too. Haters exist - people who are not able to approach a situation fairly and are just relentlessly negative because they hate X thing too. Negative parasocial attachment is just as much of a thing as a positive one.
And when you get to the point of "literally making the tools available is bad because the pelican cases are too heavy" you have crossed that rubicon. I am being very very polite here, but you are not being rational, and you are kinda having an emotional spasm over someone disagreeing with you on the internet.
Yes, if you want OEM parts and you rent OEM tooling it's probably going to come close to OEM cost. That isn't discriminatory, if the prices are fair+reasonable, and objectively they pretty much are. $49 to rent the tools, and have them shipped both ways, etc, is not an unreasonable ask.
Not having a viable business model for your startup doesn't mean the world is wrong. It means you don't have a viable business idea. And yeah, if you are renting the tools as a one-off, and counting your personal time as having some value (or labor cost in a business), then you probably are not going to get costs that are economical with a large-scale operator with a chain operation and an assembly-line repair shop with repair people who do nothing but repair that one brand. That's not Apple's fault.
What we ultimately come down to with your argument is "apple is killing right-to-repair by being too good at repair and providing too cheap repairs such that indie shops can no longer make a margin" and I'm not sure that's actionable in a social sense of preventing e-waste. People getting their hardware repaired cheaply is good. Long parts lifetimes are good. Etc.
Being able to swap in shitty amazon knockoff parts is a whole separate discussion, of course. And afaik that is going to be forced by the EU anyway, consequences be damned. So what are you complaining about here?
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but once you tally up overpriced parts together with their oversized, heavy, expensive rental of tools that you don't need, you end up with a sum that matches what you would pay to have it repaired by Apple - except you're doing all of the work yourself.
A curious consumer who has never repaired a device, but might have been interested in doing so, will therefore conclude that repairing their own device is 1. Far too complicated, thanks to an intimidating-looking piece of kit that they recommend, but is completely unnecessary, and 2. Far too expensive, because Apple prices these such that the repair is made economically nonviable.
So yes, I still believe that this is Apple fighting the anti-repair war on a psychological front. You're giving them benefit of the doubt even though they've established a clear pattern of behavior that demonstrates their anti-repair stance beyond any reasonable doubt - although you dance around the citations and claim that I'm being unreasonable about Apple genuinely making the repair situation "better".
Futhermore, I'm not a fanboy or anti-fanboy of any company. The only thing I'm an anti-fanboy of are anti-consumer practices. If Apple changed some of their practices I'd go out and buy an iPhone and a Macbook tomorrow.
The fact that I pointed out that Apple is hostile against repair does not mean that I endorse Google, Samsung, or any other brand - they all suck when it comes to repair, yet you're taking it as a personal attack and calling me names for it.