Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools | Repair advocates say Apple’s move is beneficial, but also strategic::Repair advocates say Apple’s move is beneficial, but also strategic.
Well to be completely honest; even if Apple in no way helps me fix ther products, them simply just stopping to actively make it harder would be a giant leap forward.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, this isn’t suspicious in any way. Totally on the up and up.
vale@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I can’t think of any reason why Apple, which has historically been against the right to repair, wouldn’t support this!
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably marketing, and hoping California doesn’t make it worse for them.
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, the right to repair apple supports is the one they can control. You have the rights, but you need to buy the parts from them, you need to buy the specialized tools from them, with their terms en conditions.
In other words: you’d be better to let Apple repair the stuf cheaper instead of repairing it yourselves.
poopkins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I suspect that they have found a loophole in the current bill’s wording and don’t want it to be changed.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They charge an insane amount for you to rent a repair kit for a short time to also order parts and do it yourself with no training. It’ll be ‘available’ you can self repair, but not likely.