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EVOSexyBeast t1_j1952s5 wrote

Reply to comment by Reddit-username_here in Apple’s self-service repairs expand to desktops like iMac, Mac Studio. by SUPRVLLAN

This is simply false. Independent repair shops can not access the repair tools or parts because in order to receive them you have to enter a serial number of the device you are using it for. The repair shops would have to rent them once the customer comes in and wait days for them to arrive just as the consumer would. And order the parts and wait days for them to come in. The repair shops still have to go through back allies to get a stock of repair parts to repair a customers phone in a timely manner.

Louis Rossmann is not a fan of the program. It changes nothing. It just helps confuse legislators into thinking that right to repair is a problem that will be solved by the free market.

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Reddit-username_here t1_j1973qm wrote

Repair shops have the tools. And yes, they'd have to wait on parts for the serial number of the device, but that's what you get for buying Apple lol.

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EVOSexyBeast t1_j197tqy wrote

When I bought my iPhone from apple I, and most other people, are of the understanding that they own their device. At least the physical hardware of it. Apple disabling my hardware with their software, and trying to prevent me from brining my phone to a third party repair shop, who will actually repair the hardware on my phone because Apple simply won’t no matter how much I’d be willing to pay, is pathetic, anti-competitive, and should be illegal.

And it’s not stopping at Apple, see Tesla doing similar things with their cars. Once manufacturers start getting away with it they will all do it.

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