Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch
Magnetron@lemmy.zip 5 months agoDoesn’t seem like they ever will be. They have an answer to everything lawmakers come up with. Consumers are the only group that could punish Apple in a meaningful way, and at this point, that’s definitely not in the cards either.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Baloney. Consumers didn’t do shit - only state power has curtailed their abuses.
Stop this fatalist expectation that we’d have to shop our way out it. This is what regulation is for. It works. All we have to do is do it.
Magnetron@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s what I was getting at. Consumers still buy the damn things, even though they’re manufactured by this toxic company. Can’t fault them for it either. They are pretty, after all. So we’re going to have to trust regulations. Regulations, however, always seem to be one step behind, don’t they? EU just forced the implementation of USB-C in all devices. Great. Pretty soon, those devices will all be tied to proprietary wireless charging stations. Maybe, hopefully, time will prove me wrong.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’ve lost all patience for people whose hot take is that laws can’t work.
Magnetron@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Of course, laws can work. Why are you putting words in my mouth? Take a breath, and go outside. There’s lots of laws working just fine. My problem is with companies that are too big to fail, employing better lawyers than regulators could ever afford. I say split those companies up into bits that regulators actually handle.