Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals

• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because this is not out of the goodness of their little hearts. It’s legislated late our of the EU and huge campaign coverage at just how ant-repair they are, like luis rossman.

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  • cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    we should no expect goodwill from companies, that is why they need to be regulated.

    it is actually a better news if it is a response to regulations, that means that the system works, at leas a bit

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  • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What does it matter if the end result is still the same?

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    • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fraud. Because it’s fraud.

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      • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Care to elaborate?

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple literally only is doing this because the EU forced them. They are an evil company whose entire mo is to keep control over the device you pay for

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  • Retiring@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Too be fair, they are all evil.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To varying degrees though. Google is super evil but at least they don’t express it via suppressing all choice

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• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple has a long history of working against right to repair and third party repair shops. This includes making it difficult for third parties to source the parts needed and changing the designs to requiring part pairing in the name of security. It got to the point where repair shops were buying broken Apple products so they could hopefully source the parts needed.

  Looking through what they provided now, it’s basic stuff any third party repair shop could do if they could source the parts. It’s useful. However good electronic technicians can go beyond that and do board level repairs. But that requires schematics and diagrams. A lot of times they would have to get those through other parties who in turn got them through less than official means or violated NDAs.

  Guess what Apple isn’t providing? Board level information. This is just doing the minimum the law requires them to do.

  Bonus: Louis Rossmann talks about how Apple’s history of right to repair

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is clearly just a publicity stunt and means nothing outside of parts availability, right to repair, and reparability.

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