Apple plays consumer safety card in 'Right to Repair' fight

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  • Reply 21 of 27
    Eric_WVGGeric_wvgg Posts: 975member
    I'd like to read Daniel Dilger's take on this. Although I greatly enjoy his writing, it seems he's often not critical of Apple when they're on the wrong side of an issue, which I think is clearly the case here. 
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  • Reply 22 of 27
    majorslmajorsl Posts: 119unconfirmed, member
    freerange said:
    elijahg said:
    Yeah, no one is going to buy that. If you harm yourself through a phone repair, it's entirely your fault. People have a right to fix and modify their own car, and if they're dumb enough to make a modification that causes them harm that's their own stupid fault. Also unlike with a phone, the risk of their mistake harming or even killing another person is much higher, and yet it's still allowed. 
    So if you repair / replace iPhone battery yourself and screw it up so it shorts out mid flight, catches fire, and the plane is forced to make an emergency landing, it’s just “your own stupid fault”, right? Please do tell the airline, the FAA and all the other passengers how stupid you are.
    Wow, let's jump to extremes. If you were close by, I'd offer a bandaid for that knee you must have skinned jumping to that conclusion! Besides, you do know that when your Apple item is shipped away for service, it isn't fixed by "Apple" - it's usually a 3rd party contracted company that doesn't pay/treat its employees very well, right?  I'd rather go to an independent who I can see face-to-face and who's trying hard to stay in business and make a customer happy.
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  • Reply 23 of 27
    toysandmetoysandme Posts: 243member
    Way back in the 1960s man could walk on the moon and replace batteries in his toys. Fast forward to 2019, man can no longer walk on the moon and can no longer replace batteries in his toys. 
    majorsl
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  • Reply 24 of 27
    maestro64maestro64 Posts: 5,043member
    toysandme said:
    Way back in the 1960s man could walk on the moon and replace batteries in his toys. Fast forward to 2019, man can no longer walk on the moon and can no longer replace batteries in his toys. 
    How true of a statement!
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  • Reply 25 of 27
    maestro64maestro64 Posts: 5,043member
    Awesome!  Next will be the auto manufacturers saying we can't work on our own cars.  Of course, pompous Apple corporate types don't do their own maintenance on their Bentleys so they are not concerned.

    Yeah it is already happening, with all the software on cars car companies are beginning to say you do not really own the car anymore, your are licensed only to use it. This whole right to repair stared with John Deer, and the fact their trackers have so much software controlling they do not want farmer working on them, especially the ones which navigate around the field to harvest crops. 
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  • Reply 26 of 27
    "iPhones are too dangerous for consumers to repair." Well who's fault is that?
    muthuk_vanalingam
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