Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 10 months agoStill a step forward, and it will make it easier to pass further steps.
Comment on Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 10 months agoStill a step forward, and it will make it easier to pass further steps.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It really isn’t.
Because this has highlighted the “loophole” to these kinds of laws. Strict control of parts and equipment to manipulate pricing so that third parties cannot exist and this becomes “your phone is under warranty” by another name.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 10 months ago
It definitely sounds like the law kind of sucks and needs to go further in the future, but are you really saying that being able to repair your existing device, even if the parts are overpriced, is exactly as bad as having to buy a whole new one? The reduction in e-waste alone seems like a potential improvement.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
If anything, this has increased the amount of waste.
Because, as a customer (making up the numbers but it IS something like this)?
I can pay Apple 300 bucks to let their geek squad repair it for me. Or I can pay 290 bucks to have their special tools shipped to me as well as their official parts, with all the packaging associated. And then I have to ship them back my old parts. All with extra packaging because you can’t send a customer a box full of monitor mainboards. And, because I need to source all of these directly from Apple, the moment they are no longer legally required to offer replacement parts, they won’t.
So… I can save something ridiculous (let’s say 10%) to fulfill my own warranty and nothing else.
But let’s think about this as a repair shop.
I can’t use third party or even OEM parts because basically everything requires the customer to authenticate with Apple. I can’t stock parts because Apple strictly controls parts and requires customers to special order them and return the old part during a repair. And I can’t compete with the geek squad because THEY get to stock spare screens in the back room. So I am exactly where I used to be of “Some stuff I can repair even though Apple says not to. Most stuff I can’t”
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Well if it really works out like you’re speculating that definitely sounds shitty I’ll give you that!