Apple Expanding Device Repair Programs for Consumers and Independent Shops

He will cry for something for sure

He is not crying. The only thing Apple needs to do is to give access to parts and ****ing schematics and people will figure it out from there. What Apple will do is make it look like they trying to change/help whatever, but do so in a way that will make it hard anyway with a ******** of red tape.

Can’t wait for Rossman’s vid in this.

Speaking as a former Mac Genius, the average person doesn't have the dexterity or the patience to work inside an iPhone. They'll cause damage to their device which Apple will charge them to repair properly, assuming they don't deny service entirely.

This is more a "thanks for the bull elephant you got me as a gift, not sure how I'm gonna handle it."

How many auto repair shops use stolen parts?

so you automatically declare any small phone repair shop use stolen parts?

And have you heard of chop shops? it's exactly what you describe.

Apple refused to provide affordable parts for decades, because they wanted to be the only repair facility. it shouldn't be like this.

"Apple's Self-Service Repair Program is often more expensive than taking a device to an Apple retail location or Authorized Service Provider for repair".

:rolleyes:

I was raised the son of a mechanical engineer. It's not the career I chose as an adult (not even close), but I spent many a weekend afternoon with my dad, fixing things ourselves rather than replacing them or paying through the nose for a "specialist" to do it. Some times it worked, sometimes it didn't. But each time we learned a lot about that car, that clock radio, that washing machine, that shortwave radio, that toaster... and everything else I have a foggy memory of, leaning over smelling the fumes of freshly melted solder. These experiences helped me not to fear the complexity of objects and tools, to see them as the systems they are, things that I own, that are mine, that I must take responsibility for, not always ceding that responsibility to someone else just because it's easier. Things worth doing are rarely easy.

The mean-spirited aggressiveness with with some of you proclaim that the "general public" will be lead to slaughter by their own stupidity is curious to me. Perhaps some will. Perhaps they'll piss and moan and demand Apple make it right. How Apple chooses to address those situations is up to Apple to decide, not you. But I firmly believe that anything that encourages, or even forces, people to think carefully about the objects they surround themselves with, and how to preserve, enhance, repair, and reuse those devices, pays dividends far beyond money saved. It is the first step away from the absurd disposable, know-nothing culture we find ourselves mired in.

Fear of complexity is not a destination, it is a starting point that everyone can move past.